page_title: Alicia Kozakiewicz
section_title: Abduction
hierarchical_section_title: Alicia Kozakiewicz / Abduction
caption_attribution_description: English: Alicia Kozakiewicz at age 13 in front of her computer.
context_page_description: Alicia Kozakiewicz is an American television personality, motivational speaker, and Internet safety and missing persons advocate. Kozakiewicz is the founder of the Alicia Project, an advocacy group designed to raise awareness about online predators, abduction, and child sexual exploitation. She is also the namesake of "Alicia's Law," which provides a dedicated revenue source for child rescue efforts. Kozakiewicz has worked with the television network, Investigation Discovery, to educate the public on, and effect change for, issues such as Internet safety, missing people, human trafficking, and child safety awareness education.
  At the age of 13, Kozakiewicz was the victim of an internet luring and child abduction that received widespread media attention. Her story and message have been chronicled on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, CNN, MSNBC, and the A&E Biography Channel. She has been the subject of an award-winning PBS internet safety documentary, "Alicia's Message: I'm Here to Save Your Life," as well as the Emmy award-winning "Alicia's Story" produced by Enough is Enough.
context_section_description: Kozakiewicz had corresponded online with someone she thought to be a boy of her own age—actually Scott Tyree a 38-year-old man who lived in Herndon, Virginia—who approached her in a Yahoo chat room. Over the course of nearly a year, Tyree groomed the 13-year-old Kozakiewicz. The Kozakiewicz family computer was located in the family room where internet activity could be monitored, but Tyree often contacted her at night while the rest of the family was asleep.
  On New Year's Day in 2002, Tyree lured Kozakiewicz into meeting him near her Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, address. He coerced her into his vehicle and then drove her back to his home in Virginia. Over the course of four days, she was held captive, shackled, raped, and tortured in Tyree's basement dungeon. Tyree filmed the abuse and broadcast it online, live via streaming video for others to witness.
caption: Alicia Kozakiewicz, age 13, sitting in front of her family computer
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