Police say 26-year-old Richard Sabatasse (sah-bah-TAH-see), of Mount Lebanon, communicated with the girl for weeks before picking her up in Connellsville on May 13.
The girls says Sabatasse refused to let her make phone calls or give her food while they traveled in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia before he dropped her at home Sunday morning.
Sabatasse is jailed, but had been free awaiting sentencing for corruption of minors and indecent assault in a 2006 incident involving a 15-year-old girl.
Sabatasse told a WPXI-TV reporter he hopes the media follows his case to the very end.
