![]() ![]() Then one day, a divorced 41-year-old American showed up saying he wanted to adopt her. Matthew Mancuso had found Masha through an adoption agency in Cherry Hill, N.J. He said he wanted to adopt a 5- or 6-year-old Caucasian girl, and Mancuso picked Masha out from a videotape sent to him by the adoption agency. Masha said Mancuso was friendly and brought her gifts. But there was also something strange about him. "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. The nightmare began when Masha flew home with Mancuso to his modest, middle-class house on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. When it was time for bed that first night, he didn't send her to her room - he told her to get in bed with him. The first couple of nights, he touched her leg or chest. ![]() Then he started touching her private parts. "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.Īnd then, a few days later, he started raping her repeatedly - and taking sexually explicit photographs. To keep her silent he used rewards - as well as threats. "He'd tell me not to tell anyone, or else something bad would happen," Masha said. So I just didn't tell anybody, 'cause I was afraid." A Desperate Search by Police "He wouldn't tell me what it would be, but he'd just say something bad would happen. ![]()
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