Every 12 minutes, a child goes missing. One bill can make all the difference

Published July 5, 2026 6:00am ET



At 13, Alicia Kozakiewicz snuck out of her house to meet a “friend” she’d met online. He wasn’t a friend. He abducted her, chained her in a basement, and tortured her. 

Alicia’s family, neighbors, and the FBI turned the world upside down to find her, and within days, she was pulled out of that basement alive.

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