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193. A woman who survived a horrific kidnap ordeal as a child is using TikTok to help families...

Sun Jan 31, 2021, 11:53 PM

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A woman who survived a horrific kidnap ordeal as a child is using TikTok to help families to search for missing relatives
Sophia Ankel

A woman who was groomed and kidnapped as a child by an online sex predator is now using TikTok to help find other missing people and raise awareness about internet safety.

Alicia Kozak from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was 13 years old when an online predator kidnapped her in 2002. Her captor repeatedly raped, beat, and tortured her with electric shocks in a basement for four days until she was rescued by authorities after a tip-off.

Kozak's story was one of the first-ever high-profile cases of internet grooming.

Only several months after her rescue, she started making internet safety her life's work. She toured around the country to share her story with school children, promoted her advocacy group, The Alicia Project.

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