Kidnapping Survivor Recalls Dragging ‘Cold, Heavy Chain’ From Captor’s Home

Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz was just 13 years old when she was kidnapped from her parents home in Pittsburgh and took her to Virginia. For four days, she was chained in her captor’s basement, where she was raped and abused.

Kozak told Fox News that she she felt as if she were in a dungeon of torture, and at one point believed she would die.

“He put a locking dog collar around my neck and dragged me to his dungeon and raped me,” Kozak told Fox News. 

“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.”

On the fourth day, Kozak said, her attacker suggested he was starting to like her “too much” and that he intended to take her for a drive that night.

“I knew in that moment there was nothing I could do,” she said. “I knew he was going to kill me.”

But before that ride with her captor took place, Kozak said she had heard loud banging and angry voices coming from upstairs.

Turned out, it was the FBI. But Kozak knew there was no one else at the location when she heard one of the agents yell, “All clear.”

So it seemed as if they were ready to move on.

Kozak did what she could to make herself noticed. She said that one of the FBI agents yelled, “Movement over here.” The agent was referring to her, though they didn’t know what it was at that exact moment.

“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,” Kozak said.

It seems her captor had live-streamed a video involving Kozak, and a viewer recognized her as a missing person, then called police. The FBI figured out her location, seemingly in the nick of time, and returned Kozak to her parents.

“It was a miracle I was found,” she said. “Another way to say miracle is luck. And children’s safety shouldn’t be left up to luck.”

In that time, the Internet was in its infancy. Now, everyone has a social media account, and Kozak warned that parents and kids need to be careful.

Kids on social media want to reach as many people as possible and making viral videos and become famous,” said Kozak, who is now an internet safety expert and motivational speaker.

“That’s the new type of celebrity, and who doesn’t want to be a celebrity? Who doesn’t want to be discovered? But you’re also discovered by predators who want to do harm, and kids don’t pay attention to who is following them.”

(Photos: Alicia Kozak/Facebook)

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