KACH v. HOSE

No. 08-3921.

589 F.3d 626 (2009)

Tanya Nicole KACH a/k/a Nikki Diane Allen v. Thomas HOSE, individually and on behalf of both St. Moritz Security Services, Inc. and McKeesport School District; *St. Moritz Security Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, and on behalf of the McKeesport School District; McKeesport School District; McKeesport School Board; Dr. Robert Weinfurtner, Superintendent; The City of McKeesport; Eleanor Hose and Howard Hose, as Husband and Wife; E. Michael Elias, Juvenile Lieutenant, McKeesport Police; Dan Pacella, Vice-Principal McKeesport School District; Andrea Abrams, Acting-Principal McKeesport School District; Tom Carter, Both Chief, McKeesport Police, and McKeesport School Board Member; Judy Sokol and Debbie Burnette Tanya Nicole Kach, Appellant. (*Dismissed per Court Order dated 8/18/09).

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: December 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence H. Fisher, (Argued), Cohen & Willwerth, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorney for Appellant.

P. Brennan Hart, Jeanette H. Ho, (Argued), Pietragallo, Gordon, Alfano, Bosick & Raspanti, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorneys for City of McKeesport, E. Michael Elias and Tom Carter.

David S. Bloom, Ronald R. Lucas, Jr., (Argued), Maiello, Brungo & Maiello, Pittsburgh, PA, John F. Cambest, Dodaro, Kennedy & Cambest, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorneys for Tom Carter, Andrea Abrams, Debbie Burnette, McKeesport School Board, McKeesport School District, Dan Pacella and Robert Weinfurtner.

Before: SMITH, FISHER and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

FISHER, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from a highly unusual and extremely disturbing set of circumstances. In September 1995, Tanya Nicole Kach was a fourteen-year-old student when she befriended, and later became intimate with, Thomas Hose, a security guard at her middle school. Several months later, Kach ran away from home and spent the next approximately ten years living clandestinely with Hose. In March 2006, when in her twenties...

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