Woman Missing Since She Was 14 Is Found

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl_found

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MCKEESPORT, Pa. - For 10 years, Tanya Nicole Kach says she was told that her parents didn't want her, that she was stupid and no one cared about her but the middle school security guard who was keeping her in his home.

It took her a decade to build the confidence to come forward, but on Wednesday she finally learned the truth as she hugged her father, Jerry Kach, in a tearful reunion.

"He's crying, I'm crying. All he kept saying was, 'I got my baby,'" said Kach, now 24, clutching her father's hand. "I'm touching blood, and I get to say, 'I love you, Dad.'"

Kach said she was looking forward to seeing her mother on Thursday for the first time since February 1996, when her parents reported her missing.
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This is a very weird story. McKeesport is just outside of Pittsburgh.

I have long thought that children who 'disappear' are being kept like this one was. Remember the Stayner kid?

I will never forget Janice Pockett who disappeared when she was 10 from Tolland CT. (Happened when I was a kid) No sign of her ever. Really weird.

Something that bothered me about this story is that the perp's defense attorney said that "no one in America would think she'd been kept against her will". That irritates the hell out of me. I don't know the original circumstances of her disappearance, but she was 14 years old when it happened. Even if she ran away to be with this guy, she was 14 years old! She isn't capable at that age of voluntarily agreeing to live as a prisoner of this pervert.

Now, I'll sit back and wait for the DU "Pro-Sex-With-Children-Brigade" to come in and defend this creep.:eyes:

There can't be anyone here who would defend this? Could there? :scared:

female teacher raping the 14 year old boy? There were plenty of people here who had absolutely no problem with this.

she sure as hell didn't keep the 14yo boy as a PRISONER FOR 10 FUCKING YEARS!

Then it's all harmless fun. :grr:

is a boy and the adult is a hot female teacher. :eyes:

:grr:

Someone here was arguing against age restrictions on consent with an adult.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=717135&mesg_id=718357

Neither of them is ready to have sex. Neither of them is capable of the emotions that come with a sexual relationship.

Sorry. Anyone who has sex with an underaged child is a creep and should be in jail.

I treated a lot of kids who had sex too young; it isn't pretty.

I'm going to beckon you.

The one where a poster stated that he didn't think that a 45 year old man having sex with a 15 year old girl was rape. Oh, and the word "bald" was in there somewhere for some reason.

She was held against her will. What a pervert. Which ever way it was (Woman holding a 14 year old) would still be kidnapping.

Send him away!

Plus she says that he threatened to kill her and would lock her in the bedroom! Like how is that not against her will?

I hope that asshole 'Hose' gets what's coming to him, and more, for what he put those people through. :grr:

Off topic, but my Mom's from McKeesport. Port Vue, actually...very 'small town'. It's so weird that she could be there for 10 years and no one would know. :scared:

McKeesport is a small town. I saw the woman on the news this morning and she had acrylic nails, and what appeared to be a nice blond dye-job on her hair. So apparently she was out and about in the community, and it is amazing that no one put two and two together.

FWIW - isn't it nice how that creep allegedly kept her in the house for the first four years, then let her out of the house for the last six years. By my calculation, that would have occurred when she was about 18. How convenient, huh?

for her to have ever been to the street and not run the the nearest police station. I shudder to think what she was threatened with. :scared:

an old friend of mine grew up there. I've even been there.

And I know the neighborhood they are talking about, too. What is so scary is that this young woman was so confused and kept hostage for so long.... :(

Here's a photo from when she was kidnapped:




Here's the age-progressed photo of how she SHOULD look at 24 years old:




And here's how she actually looks:





Hmmm.... kinda close.

:wow:

Thanks for posting that!

If the age progression photo had bleached out white hair it would be almost exact.

but that is amazing.

But the artist damn near nailed it in this case. That's seriously impressive.