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'I was raped, beaten and tortured:' Kidnap survivor opens up about how online predator gained her trust
By Yael Halon | Fox News
The survivor of one of the first widely covered cases of internet-related child abduction is speaking out about her experience in the hope of promoting child safety online.
Alicia Kozakiewicz sat down with Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren in a new episode of "No Interruption", in which Kozakiewicz detailed her online correspondence with former computer programmer Scott Tyree, who kidnapped and abused her after she agreed to meet with him at the age of 13.
"I met somebody online who I thought was my friend, who could understand me," Kozakiewicz recalled. "That's what predators do. They look to find vulnerabilities in a child. And the next thing I knew, I was in a car, and this man was squeezing my hand so tightly that I thought he had broken it."
Tyree, who had traveled to Pittsburgh to meet Kozakiewicz following weeks of online correspondence, drove her to his home in Virginia, where he held her captive for four days. "I was raped and beaten and tortured in that basement," Kozakiewicz told Lahren. "People often ask me 'did you think that he was going to kill you? And it wasn't a question of if, it was when.'"
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/tomi-lahren-kozakiewicz-kidnapped-online-abduction
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