Topics:<\/b> Fathers; Identity; Lying; Providence; Restoration; Satan; Worth<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Proverbs 19:5; Luke 15:20\u201324; John 10:10\u201315<\/p>\n
In 1996, a thirty-eight-year-old security guard at a Pennsylvania middle school convinced Tanya Kach, fourteen, to leave her father and live with him. For the next ten years, the security guard kept Tanya captive in the home he shared with his elderly parents.<\/p>\n
To keep Tanya from running away, her captor convinced the girl that no one cared that she was gone and that her parents weren\u2019t even looking for her. He told her, \u201cYou\u2019re stupid. You\u2019re immature. Nobody cares about you but me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually the security guard became so confident in Tanya\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
In March 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\u2019s situation, Sparico said, \u201cShe wanted to be wanted, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanya\u2019s father, Jerry, who had desperately tried to find his daughter through the years, posting her picture several thousand times on flyers and milk cartons, was overjoyed to see her. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a day that went by that I didn\u2019t think of her,\u201d he said. \u201cI just say thank you, there is a God\u2014and he brought my little girl back home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanya, too, was delighted to learn that her father had never given up looking for her. \u201cHe\u2019s crying; I\u2019m crying. All he kept saying was, \u2018I got my baby,\u2019 \u201d she said, describing their reunion. \u201cI\u2019m touching blood, and I get to say, \u2018I love you, Dad.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Daniel Lovering, \u201cWoman Missing Since She Was 14 Is Found,\u201d news.yahoo.com (March 23, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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