The pervert stepfather was only apprehended in 2003. On 11th August 2005 he was found guilty of raping an under-age girl, incest and unlawfully confining a child in order to degrade her. On 17th November the court of the 5th District of Pennsylvania sentenced Mancuso to 35 years imprisonment. After this Masha was adopted by a young single woman, but the young girl decided to tell everyone her story in order to help other victims of sexual violence. Speaking before Congressmen, Masha asked them for help, appealing for them “to do something about the Internet”. “Matthew placed photographs of me on the Internet, so my humiliation is still carrying on,” said the girl. At the same time she does not want Americans to be banned from adopting Russian children.
But the Internet has not only caused her harm; it is also a panacea. The whole of Masha’s short but bitter biography can be found on the world-wide web on her own site. As the young girl herself says, “Matthew found an adoption agency on the Internet. This agency gave him photographs of me from Russia over the Internet, even though they did not even know anything about him. After Matthew received me, he placed photographs of me on the Internet – people are still downloading them even though he has now been in prison for two years”.
Now in the USA a draft bill has been developed, more widely known as “Masha’s Law”, which calls for harsh punishments for people who download child pornography off the Internet. The bill also recognizes the right for victims of violence to file lawsuits over breach of copyright when photographs of them are distributed. According to certain estimates, there are approximately three million images of child pornography on the Internet.
It is worth noting that many Russian families would also like adopt an orphan, but cannot, because foreign firms specializing in exporting children exploit the shortcomings in Russian legislation and sometimes even circumvent them, literally exporting orphans in a stream out of Russia. In our country people are also concerned by the abuse and murders of Russian children who have been adopted by Americans. This is proven by press reports and the results of sociological surveys. Politicians and lawyers are talking about it. In particular, according to the deputy General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Sergey Fridinsky, “American citizens adopt 62 percent of the total number of children adopted by foreigners, which means almost 5 thousand children a year. This is a very large number. Nevertheless, 14 cases of the murder of Russian children have been recorded, not counting other crimes, and this causes a great deal of concern”.
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