Masha Allen, who was adopted in 1998 in Russia, fell victim to her American rapist stepfather. Masha exposed all the details of her stay in America, which she hoped would become her second homeland, in written testimonies before the Energy and Trade Committee of the American Congress. Furthermore, a special site for the girl has been created on the Internet, whose real name is Maria Ysenikova.
Passions come to the boil over the problem of the adoption of Russian children by foreign citizens. Russian children who are taken abroad often end up in appalling conditions. Cases are known where adoptive parents have mistreated their children or even killed them. In January of this year it was announced that in the USA a couple has been convicted of abusing two adopted children from Russia.
The trial of Teresa and Reed Hansen lasted three years and it was established that the parents would punish their adopted children from Russia, leaving them without food, would beat them with wooden sticks and made them sleep in the bath without blankets or pyjamas. A court in the American state of Utah gave the couple a suspended sentence and made them pay $35 thousand to the children for the abuse. At the moment the children (brother and sister) are living with another family. Last year the most high profile trial of a Russian child’s murder was the case of Irma Pavlis. In May 2005 a court in Chicago sentenced her to 12 years in prison.
The fate of Masha Allen, who plucked up the courage to testify in Congress against her stepfather, appalls you with its sequence of tragic events. At the age of three she was put in a children’s home after her mother tried to kill her. Two years later in 1998 it seemed as if fate was smiling on the little girl: the American millionaire Matthew Mancuso decided to adopt her. Her new stepfather drove the 5-year old child to his estate in the suburbs of Pittsburgh (in the state of Pennsylvania) and in this vehicle her childhood ended before it had even had time to begin. The next five years became a never-ending nightmare. The American dad raped the young girl almost every day, recorded the whole process on film and distributed photographs of his own debaucheries over the Internet. The girl grew, but so that Masha looked younger than her age and remained thin, the millionaire simply starved her.
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