A man who served two decades in prison for abducting a Pittsburgh teenager in 2002 will likely spend the next 25 years behind bars.
Scott Tyree, 63, had only been out of prison for a few years when he was accused of stalking a woman in central Pennsylvania.
During that investigation, police say they also found child pornography on his cell phone. He went to trial on that charge and was just found guilty by a jury.
Twenty-four years ago, Alicia Kozakiewicz was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Tyree in the first known Internet predator case in the country. She was 13 at the time.
“I do think he should be put behind bars for the rest of his life because this is not going to stop. He’s had every opportunity to make better choices and not cause harm, and at every turn, his ultimate goal and desire has been to cause harm,” Kozakiewicz said.
The FBI found Kozakiewicz in the basement of Tyree’s Virginia home.
He spent nearly 20 years in federal prison and was released to a halfway house just 3 miles from the Kozakiewicz family home.
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After 11 investigators broke that story, Kozakiewicz petitioned the court to have Tyree relocated.
Tyree was ultimately sent back to prison for violating parole after investigators found child porn on his phone.
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He was released and several years later charged with stalking a woman in Cumberland County after Kozakiewicz and her boyfriend, who were tracking Tyree’s social media, found images of the woman online and alerted her and police.
Last December, Tyree pleaded guilty to stalking but only faced up to 23 months on that charge.
Kozakiewicz, who was in court for the most recent verdict, is just relieved it’s finally over.
“We were able to stop that. We were able to intervene, and hopefully he will never be able to harm anybody ever again,” Kozakiewicz said.
Tyree will be sentenced in January.
As a repeat sex offender, he’s looking at a mandatory sentence of 25 years.
He’s been in jail since his arrest on these most recent charges last year.
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