Police last night were searching for a hairdresser accused of helping facilitate sexual encounters between a school security guard and teenage runaway Tanya Kach, who resurfaced this week in McKeesport after a decade-long disappearance.

	Steve Mellon, Post-Gazette
	This is Soles Street in McKeesport, where Tanya Kach lived with Thomas Hose and his family for the 10 years she was reported missing. Miss Kach reemerged in McKeesport earlier in the week.

Investigators interviewed Judith Sokol, 57, on Wednesday about her involvement in the Kach case, but did not obtain an arrest warrant for her until yesterday.

She is charged with statutory sexual assault and three counts of involuntary deviate sexual assault -- the same charges filed Wednesday against Thomas John Hose.

Authorities described Ms. Sokol as an accomplice to Mr. Hose, 48, who was a security guard at Cornell Middle School when he met Miss Kach in 1995. She was 14 at the time.

Miss Kach told police that she moved in with Mr. Hose in February 1996 and he kept her hidden for the next 10 years in a home on Soles Street that he shared with his parents and son. Within a week, they were sharing a bed, police said, and the two engaged in sex while she was still a minor.

Mr. Hose had her record their encounters in a calendar book, "which she had so he could brag to co-workers and friends of him engaging in sex and how often," according to the affidavit supporting charges against him.

Ms. Sokol told police she cut and dyed Miss Kach's hair and allowed her home to be used for sex between Miss Kach and Mr. Hose. She told police that she knew the pair's relationship was "inappropriate," the affidavit said.

Ms. Sokol severed her ties with the two after being contacted by the county's Office of Children, Youth and Families, the affidavit said. It was not known when that contact occurred.

Police yesterday tried to find Ms. Sokol at her apartment in Duquesne, but to no avail.

Miss Kach emerged from hiding this week when she revealed her true identity to a store owner.

Gene Volas, 72, owner of a White Oak hair salon, said Ms. Sokol had worked for him briefly 30 years ago.

"Judy is the mystery lady," he said yesterday, chewing over the week's events. "She was an excellent hairdresser when she came to me."

Mr. Hose was placed on suspension with pay as of Thursday. He was a contract employee from 1993-2000 from a security agency and was hired as a full-time school district employee in 2000.

The McKeesport School District has launched an internal investigation of Mr. Hose, solicitor Jack Cambest said.

"As far as we have been able to determine, there are no other complaints by employees, students or teachers against him," Mr. Cambest said.

Mr. Hose will remain in jail, at least through the weekend. He was given a percentage bond of $2,000. But yesterday, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. asked that a detainer be placed on Mr. Hose until Monday, when another bond hearing could be held.

Mr. Zappala's spokesman said the district attorney thought the bond was too low.

Records show that a Bail Agency investigator recommended bond of $10,000 straight. But that recommendation was not communicated verbally to District Judge Thomas G. Miller, who arraigned Mr. Hose on Wednesday at 10:42 p.m., Bail Agency Manager John Young said.

Instead, it was written on the front of the Bail Agency's case folder; it was not believed that Judge Miller saw the notation.

"It states our recommendation was $10,000 straight, but there's a good possibility that District Judge Miller wasn't aware of our recommendation," Mr. Young said.

Judge Miller said he did not know of any recommendation. He defended the bond set for Mr. Hose, saying the suspect has ties to the community, a job, a home, no prior criminal record and other indications of stability.

"One, he turned himself in," Judge Miller said. "Two, if you look at the Bail Agency risk assessment, he gets a low risk factor."