Woman helps champion new Pennsylvania law after her own childhood abduction

A convicted child sex offender who spent nearly two decades in prison after kidnapping a Pittsburgh teenager was recently convicted of similar crimes more than 20 years later. It came just a week before the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law named after the survivor.For the past 24 years, Alicia Kozak had a distinct fear."It's always been that he was going to be released," Kozak said. "He was going to be back out in the world, and that was something that was always going to happen."Known to many as Kozakiewicz, she was just 13 years old in 2002 when then-38-year-old Scott Tyree met her online and traveled to Pittsburgh to abduct her. He held her hostage in his basement in Virginia and sexually abused her for four days.It wasn't until someone recognized her from missing person posters that she was rescued. It's now recognized as one of the first online predator cases in the country leading to child abduction."I can't change the past, but I can work to protect those in the future