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

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. Recommended Stories The missing half of Trump’s AI strategy For America 250, reject Mamdani’s narrative of American oppression America at 250: Stewards, not owners, of freedom Anaiah Walker’s story began the same way. She snuck out, too. The difference is that no one tore the world apart for her because Anaiah went missing from a foster home for abused children. What passed for a search was a name in a database and a few flyers.

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