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Alicia’s Law
Alicia Kozakiewicz was abducted six years ago by a man she met online. For four days she was brutally raped and chained to his floor while he continued to go to work and bragged online about kidnapping a young girl. Finally a team of law enforcement officers specializing in cybercrime rescued her and arrested him.
The nineteen-year-old now spends much of her time making presentations about online safety and going to schools to warn others about online predators through her story. Last year she testified before congress, “Please support the children. Save us from pedophiles, the pornographers, the monsters. The boogeyman is real, and he lives on the Net. He lived on my computer, and he lives in yours. While you are sitting here, he’s at home with your children. . . . Task forces all over this country are poised to capture him, to put him in that prison cell with the man who hurt me. They can do it; they want to do it. Don’t you?”
Alicia’s Law will provide state money to combat online crimes against children. The state of Virginia will set aside $18 million dollars over the next two years to target online crimes, including luring of children and pornography.
This commitment to public safety is adding to the two task forces in Virginia that are funded by the federal government. Alicia’s Law funding with expand training and equipment, which is very much needed. The creation of three computer forensic labs should help in the current wait of several months to analyze a hard drive
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