On February 10, 1996, a 38-year-old security guard at a Pennsylvania middle school convinced then 14-year-old Tanya Kach to leave her father and live with him. For the next ten years, the security guard kept Tanya in the home he shared with his elderly parents.

Throughout the years after Tanya's disappearance, her father desperately tried to find her. He posted her picture several thousand times on flyers and milk cartons. To keep her from running away, Tanya's captor convinced her that no one cared that she was gone—that her parents weren't even looking for her. He told her: "You're stupid. You're immature. Nobody cares about you but me."

Eventually, the security guard became so confident in her loyalty to him that he allowed her to leave the house for short periods of time while he was at work. Through these daily excursions, Tanya became friends with Joseph Sparico, the owner of a local Deli Mart. In March of 2006, Tanya finally confessed her true identity to Sparico, who shared the information with his son—a retired police officer. Before long, Tanya was rescued and reunited with her father. Commenting on the girl's situation, Sparico said, "She wanted to be wanted, that's all."

Tanya's father, Jerry, was overjoyed to see her. "It was exactly 10 years, one month, and 11 days," he said, "and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think of her. I just say thank you, there is a God, and he brought my little girl back home."

Tanya, too, was delighted to learn that her father had never given up looking for her. "He's crying; I'm crying. All he kept saying was, 'I got my baby,'" she said, describing their reunion. "I'm touching blood, and I get to say, 'I love you, Dad.'"