Sex slave case goes to trial
McKeesport suspect stabbed self before last trial
Allegheny County prosecutors will try again today to bring to trial a former school security guard accused of keeping Tanya Kach under his control at his McKeesport home for 10 years.
On the eve of his last scheduled trial in February, Thomas D. Hose reportedly took pills and inflicted a half-dozen superficial stab wounds to his abdomen. The trial, or possible plea hearing, was postponed until this month while Mr. Hose went to Mayview State Hospital for evaluation. So far as his attorney knows, Mr. Hose, 49, remains at Mayview. Asked about his client's health and mental state, attorney James Ecker said he has not spoken with Mr. Hose lately, but expects him to be in Common Pleas Court today for jury selection in his trial.
Also today, Mr. Hose's co-defendant, Judith C. Sokol, 58, of Duquesne, is also scheduled for trial in the case. Ms. Sokol is charged with child endangerment for allegedly helping Mr. Hose change the victim's appearance and to permit sexual encounters between Mr. Hose and the victim at Ms. Sokol's home.
Tanya Kach turned up in McKeesport 14 months ago, 10 years after she disappeared as a 14-year-old student at Cornell Intermediate School, where Mr. Hose was a security guard. Kach told police she had been kept a psychological prisoner by Mr. Hose while she lived under the alias, "Nikki Diane Allen."
Testimony at previous court proceedings has indicated Mr. Hose had sex with Miss Kach during the time she lived in his home, located in the same neighborhood as the home in which Kach was raised. Kach filed a federal lawsuit last September against the McKeesport School District, its school board, the city of McKeesport, its police department and a number of individuals she claims were negligent and responsible for her detention by Mr. Hose.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07136/786265-55.stm
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