Mancuso, 55, was divorced and independently wealthy when he traveled to Russia 15 years ago to adopt Allen and then embarked on five years of abuse against her which included taking pictures of her in Disney World and spreading them online. In an interview with ABC News eight-years-ago, when she first came forward, Allen said she knew there was something strange about Mancuso when he adopted her. He's in prison for making pornographic images of her that were widely distributed online The 2006 "Masha's Law" is named for Masha Allen, a Russian orphan adopted at age 5 by divorced Pittsburgh millionaire Matthew Mancuso (pictured). 'I remember asking him if I was gonna get a mother, and he'd say that he wasn't married, and that he didn't think I would,' she said. Her nightmare began on her first night when he told her to get into his bed and then proceeded to rape her repeatedly. He then began to take explicit photographs which he placed online for his secret community of internet pedophiles. 'But it always came back to me - couldn't stop it.' 'I'd make myself think of other things when it was happening,' she said. Her rescue began when Chicago Police Sergeant Mike Zaglifa, who had been posing as a pedophile online noticed a new batch of child pornography appear - which was Allen. He struck up an online conversation with a child pedophile with the handle, 'NkdSister' and realized as a gut feeling that this individual might be the source of Allen's graphic imagery. Zaglifa informed the FBI and on May 27th, 2003, two federal agents went to Mancuso's Pittsburgh home to investigate.
The agents quickly found computer disks with child pornography and then suddenly, 10-year-old Allen asked the agents, 'Is this about my secret?' Immediately, the agents knew that Mancuso was not happy to see them and they separated Allen from her adoptive father. She filed the federal lawsuit Friday in Philadelphia under the name Jane Doe Masha Allen is now 20 and has changed her name to regain some measure of privacy after testifying in Congress (pictured in 2006). Indeed, after Mancuso's arrest it was discovered that Allen was not his first victim. That unfortunate title belonged to his 28-year-old daughter, Rachelle. When I first found out that he adopted a little girl I should have spoke up, I should have said something. If convicted, Prine faces 10 years to life in prison.I feel somehow responsible,' Rachelle said to ABC News in 2005. The children were about that old, the detective replied. “That,” referred to, in Prine’s words “sexual interaction between family members.”ĭid the mom like to participate (in the incest and child rape) or just watch? “I enjoy both,” the detective replied, before asking Morton for his age preferences. “Are you into that?” Prine had written to the detective earlier. Earlier, Prine had explained in explicit detail exactly what he hoped to get out of the encounter: This case presents a world of smoke and mirrors.”Ī world of smoke and mirrors that nevertheless resolves into a pretty damning scene: Police busted Prine, carrying a pizza box, as he approached the supposed 32-year-old mother’s apartment on Nov. “It is not just officers who pose,” he told the court.
Prine’s lawyer is taking the “Internet as fantasyland” defense, claiming his client was simply role-playing. hristmas”ĭetective James Morton, who posted the ad, was using the capital letters as a simple code: In pedophile circles, PTHC stands for “pre-teen hardcore.” The ad was an invitation, and Prine took Morton up on his offer. “P.hamily fun serious replies only bama won yes T.erday and kansas state lost don’t forget to H. The flurry of emails began with this message posted to the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist: Jurors heard opening statements yesterday in the case of Alan Preston Prine, 60, arrested last November after exchanging more than 200 emails with an undercover officer posing as a 32-year-old housewife offering up her two pre-teen kids for sex. A recent undercover sting in Mobile, Ala., provides a window into the secret world of coded language pedophiles use online.