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" THE BOGGIE MAN IS REAL, HE LIVES ON THE NET... WHILE YOU ARE SITTING HERE HE IS AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILDREN"

October 17, 2007 10:32 AM

Alicia Kozakiewicz is a 19 year old college sophomore. But today when she appears before the House Judiciary Committee she will take members of congress back to the days when she was just a shy 13 year old girl and say, "I am that 13 year old girl who was lured by an internet predator, transported across state lines to Virginia, in fact not so very far from here, and enslaved by a sadistic pedophilic monster...HE CAME FOR A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, FOR A SEX SLAVE, HE CAME FOR ME."

Congress has held a slew of these kinds of hearings on internet predators who so easily trap and harm young children, but the problem just gets worse. Grier Weeks, the executive director of the National Association to Protect Children says in his testimony there is not enough law enforcement, especially on the federal level, and not enough money. "After years of administration neglect and mounting congressional scrutiny the Department of Justice finally doubled funding in 2007. However, funding for this BRIDGE TO SAFETY FOR CHILDREN is STILL LESS than ONE-FOURTH the FEDERAL INVESTMENT in ALASKA's infamous BRIDGE TO NOWHERE."

Alicia was not on drugs. She had loving parents. She was very shy and at times lonely and so she found a friend on the internet, "christine, a beautiful red haired 14 year old girl who just understood me all too well. We became the very best of friends...And we traded our school pictures. TOO BAD THAT HERS WERE FAKE. Yeah, Christine was really a middle-aged pervert named JOHN."

Alicia describes the kidnapping, the rape and torture she endured in a homemade dungeon while her CAPTOR TOOK PICTURES AND POSTED THEM ON THE INTERNET FOR HIS FRIENDS TO SEE. She says it was because she lived in Pittsburgh which has one of the best cyber crime task forces in the country and was enslaved in Virginia with one of the best internet crimes against children task forces that she was eventually rescued. She ends her testimony with this Chilling statement.

"the BOOGIE MAN IS REAL -- HE LIVES ON THE INTERNET...WHILE YOU ARE SITTING HERE, HE IS AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILDREN."

October 17, 2007 in Congress | Permalink | User Comments (2)

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That is pretty sick, but I think the times are changing with regards to online predators. With shows like "To Catch a Predator," people are more aware of threats lurking online. Ultimately, the lack of funding is unnerving, but responsibility belongs to the parents of children using the internet.

Posted by: Mike Shor | Oct 17, 2007 1:54:23 PM

It is very sad, and all I can say is why isn't there a childrens net. We have the means. we already have a second internet. Why hasn't someone gone the second step and created an internet Kids have to get on where sign-up is done from School where they know the kids are kids? I don't condone the things done to this person but when you allow your children to roam the world online, you should expect to get all kinds of people, good, bad and very very bad. Law enforcement should only be expected to do so much. What happened to this girl is actually rare. Most molestors are people who are close to the family, friends. NOT strangers.

Posted by: Mike | Oct 26, 2007 1:35:05 PM

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