Posted on 08/23/2005 8:16:33 PM PDT by Coleus
PITTSBURGH -- Ten minutes.
The time between dinner and dessert in the home of Charles and Mary Ann Kozakiewicz. The time it took the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Alicia, to vanish on New Year's Day in 2002.
Mary Ann Kozakiewicz had been clearing dishes from the table when she saw her daughter leave the dining room. Alicia told her she was going to her room. By the time an apple-walnut pie had been laid out, she was gone.
Her family found no note, no sign of a break-in. On one of the coldest nights of the winter, Alicia's jacket remained in the closet. A pile of cash -- $200 in Christmas gifts -- lay on her dresser.
The parents called Alicia's friends, searched the neighborhood and alerted Pittsburgh police. An officer asked if Alicia had ever run away. Did she use drugs? Was she having trouble at school? No, no and no, the parents said.
The officer recorded their responses, then told the couple Alicia would probably show up in a few hours.
"But we knew she wouldn't," Charles Kozakiewicz said. "We knew she was gone."
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The search for Alicia Kozakiewicz would involve Pittsburgh police, the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office and dozens of federal agents. It would also mark the first use of the USA Patriot Act in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Signed into law six weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Patriot Act was portrayed by the Bush administration as an integral tool to
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I really wanted to read the story but with so many pop ups and scrolling ads and junk it's nearly impossible.
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you can lead this freeper to "spell", but you can't make him click on it.
On the very first day of 2002, a 13 year old Pittsburgh girl walked out of her home and into the waiting car of a sexual predator who had befriended her online. Three days later she was found bound, gagged and alive in a suburban Washington D.C. townhouse.
Her kidnapper was 38 year old Scott Tyree, a computer programmer, who was so proud of his conquest that he bragged about it to his online community of men obsessing about sex with girls. Fortunately, it was his undoing. One of those "friends" turned him in and the police showed up before Scott Tyree faced the dilemma of what to do with his "victim".
The kidnapping of Alicia Kozakiewicz is not only a warning to parents and children about the dangers of molesters using the Internet to seduce children -- it is also a warning about the power of Internet pornography and chat rooms to seduce men, women and teens into sexual addictions. WholeHearted -- an organization dedicated to cultivating a new revolution for sexual wholeness -- urges Internet users to be warned that we are all vulnerable to the power of Internet pornography to ignite and reinforce sexual addictions.
To read more:
http://www.wholehearted.org/ViewArchive.asp?sect=F.Y.I.&ID=2
I just copied and pasted her name in the url address block and hit enter and several links came up. That's how I found THIS article.
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