A RAPE survivor has recalled the horrifying ordeal she suffered at the hands of her kidnapper who kept her chained in his basement and tortured her.
Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz was just 13 years old she was trapped in a dungeon for four days, where she was chained to a bed, repeatedly beaten and raped.
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Her sick captor had lured her from her parents’ home in Pittsburgh and drove her to his home in Virginia.
He placed a dog collar around her neck and tied her to the bed before assaulting her and torturing her for days.
Recalling the horror moments she lived 20 years later, she told Fox News: “He put a locking dog collar around my neck and dragged me to his dungeon and raped me.
“He chained me to the floor with this dog collar next to the bed. I was raped and beaten and tortured in that house for four days.”
Alicia confessed she thought she was not going to make it when on the fourth day in captivity, the rapist told her he had started to “like her too much” and told her they would “go for a ride.”
“I knew in that moment there was nothing I could do. I knew he was going to kill me,” she said.
Alicia explained she had almost accepted her fate and in those moments she thought of her parents “and how much they loved me”.
“That’s what kept me going, but I knew it was unlikely that I was going to make it out of there alive,” she said.
Luckily, before the “ride,” Alicia heard banging on the door and “angry voices.”
While at the time she didn’t know it was the FBI, she was relieved to hear the words “movement over there.”
She said: “I remember dragging that cold, heavy chain out, and trying to put my hands up but also trying to cover myself at the same time. I had no clothing on. I was staring at the end of a gun.
Alicia was rescued thanks to a live stream her kidnapper shared online-someone who watched the video recognised her from a missing person poster and called the police.
Alicia still thinks it was ” a miracle” she was found after her four-day ordeal in January 2002.
She added: “Another way to say miracle is luck. And children’s safety shouldn’t be left up to luck.”
The rape survivor is now an advocate for missing people and uses her traumatic experience to raise awareness for children’s safety online.
Alongside the National Association to Protect Children to enact Alicia’s Law, which provides funding to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program.
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