MCKEESPORT, Pa. -- McKeesport police said a woman who has been missing for 10 years -- since she was 14 years old -- has been found safe.

Officials said Tanya Nicole Kach, now 24, walked into a McKeesport convenience store on Tuesday and told the store owner who she was.

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Kach was reported missing on Feb. 10, 1996.

McKeesport police Officer Joseph Pero said Kach was initially listed as a runaway, but her disappearance turned into a missing person case.

Kach was reported to be in good condition and is with family members in Pittsburgh.

Kach told Channel 11 news reporter Karen Welles that she was held captive by a 37-year-old man.

The suspect turned himself into police on Wednesday. Police have not identified the suspect.

Kach said, "I thought I found someone who loved me and he said he'd take care of me." Kach said she was held in a bedroom for 10 years. Kach insisted she wasn't physically or sexually abused, but she said there was verbal and mental abuse.

"There were times when I would threaten to leave and there were times he threatened to kill me," said Kach.

Kach said after four years of never leaving the bedroom, she was finally allowed to go out once in a while, but she thinks she was brainwashed into thinking her parents wouldn't want her back.

"I didn't want to be on the streets because that's where I thought I'd be. I didn't think I had a home. That was my home, that was my life," said Kach. "I didn't think anybody cared because he would tell me, 'Your case is dead, it's cold.'"

Her father, Jerry Kach, never gave up hope of finding her.

Jerry Kach said, "It was exactly 10 years, one month and 11 days and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think of her."

Officials said the investigation is continuing, but would not comment further.

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