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Alicia Kozakiewicz is an American television personality, 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 joined the television network, Investigation Discovery (ID), to educate the public on, and effect change for, issues such as Internet safety, missing persons, human trafficking, and child safety awareness education.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/deadline-crime-with-tamron-hall/deadline-crime-with-tamron-hall-videos/alicia-kozakiewicz-innocence-lost/ )〕 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. Kozakiewicz has been featured in numerous national and international publications, such as People and Cosmopolitan.〔 Kozakiewicz has addressed Congress on the issue of internet safety for children and Federal child rescue funding. ==Abduction and rescue== Prior to her abduction, Kozakiewicz had corresponded online with Scott Tyree, who approached her in a Yahoo chat room, and intimated to be a member of her age group.〔 In actuality, Tyree was a 38-year-old man who lived in Herndon, Virginia. Over the course of nearly a year, Tyree groomed the 13-year-old Kozakiewicz. Although the Kozakiewicz family computer was located in the family room where internet activity could be monitored, Tyree often contacted her at night after the rest of the family had gone to sleep.〔 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 4 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.〔 A viewer in Florida recognized Kozakiewicz from news stories and a missing persons flier from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He contacted the FBI via a payphone, because he feared being charged as an accessory to the crime.〔 The FBI, using information garnered from the anonymous tip, located the whereabouts of Tyree and the captive Kozakiewicz. They tracked the IP address associated with Tyree's Yahoo username and pinpointed his location at a townhouse in Herndon. When FBI agents stormed the house on January 4, 2002,〔 Kozakiewicz feared that they were men Tyree had sent to kill her. At 3:30 PM on January 4, 2002, Agents released Kozakiewicz from her restraints. Tyree was arrested half an hour later at his workplace in Herndon.〔 After her rescue, Kozakiewicz was examined at a hospital and released to the custody of Fairfax County Child Protective Services.〔 Her parents, Mary and Charles Kozakiewicz, were unable to take a commercial flight to reunite with their daughter due to the heightened media attention. They were privately flown to Virginia by the FBI on the following day. In the aftermath, Kozakiewicz has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)〔 and significant memory loss. Much of her life leading up to the abduction is difficult or impossible to recall. She has used counseling as a treatment method.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alicia Kozakiewicz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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