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Masha Allen - Masha found

Three months later the hunt ended when a search through child pornography photo databases found a match. The girl, only eight years old at the time the photographs were taken, was a Russian orphan, who had been adopted in 1998 by Matthew Mancuso, a 46-year-old retired engineer from Plum, Pennsylvania for the express purpose of molesting her and using her to produce pornographic photos, which he would then share with others.

Once found, she was removed from his custody and was finally safe. Mancuso was at the time serving a 15-year federal prison sentence after being arrested and convicted in 2003 of distributing child pornography online. Masha has since been placed with a new family.

The dark-haired girl in the later photo was found to be a friend of hers, one of the few friends she was allowed to have. She herself had photographed the friend when Mancuso let her use the camera. Mancuso never abused her sexually.

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