Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981)[1] is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended.
[2] Her captor, Thomas Hose, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison.
Thomas Hose (born 1957)[4] was a security guard at Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where Kach was an eighth-grade student.
She escaped from captivity on March 21, 2006, with the help of Joe Sparico, a grocery store owner in her neighborhood whom she had befriended, by revealing her true identity to him and asking him to send police to the house.
[1] She has also written a New York Times bestselling book titled Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid: The Tanya Nicole Kach Story.