By  Seamus McGraw   

April 7, 2006

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MCKEESPORT, Pa. (Crime Library) — For the first time since she emerged from what she described as a decade of captivity in the home of a school security guard, Tanya Kach told her story in court, testifying that her captor had threatened to kill her if she ever tried to leave him.

House Kach kept in

"There were a few times he threatened me," Kach told the court during a preliminary hearing for her accused captor Thomas Hose, and Hose's alleged co-conspirator Judith Sokol. "He got up into my face and said, 'if you leave, I will kill you."

Tanya Nichole Kach

In what observers described as graphic testimony, the now 24-year-old Kach repeated many of the same allegations that had been contained in earlier court documents. She recounted how she had become involved with Hose while she was still a teenager, then an eighth grader at the middle school where the middle aged-security guard worked.

Thomas John Hose

Soon after, she testified, they began a sexual relationship that lasted through her teens. At the age of 14, she ran away from her father's house to be with Hose, she has said. At first, she testified, they would travel between the house on Soles Street where the then 38-year-old Hose lived with his parents and the home of Sokol, a hairdresser and friend of Hose's. Not long after that, Hose turned her into a prisoner, keeping her inside a second floor bedroom in the Soles Street house, where she has said, he forced her to use a bucket as a toilet, and demanded that she write down the details of each of their sexual encounters so that he could brag about them to his friends and co-workers.

During her captivity, Kach testified, Hose insisted that no one was looking for the missing teen, and told her on more than one occasion that he was the only person in the world who cared about her.

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