That unfortunate title belonged to his 28-year-old daughter, Rachelle. Indeed, after Mancuso's arrest it was discovered that Allen was not his first victim. 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). 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. Zaglifa informed the FBI and on May 27th, 2003, two federal agents went to Mancuso's Pittsburgh home to investigate. 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. 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. '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.
He then began to take explicit photographs which he placed online for his secret community of internet pedophiles. Her nightmare began on her first night when he told her to get into his bed and then proceeded to rape her repeatedly. '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.
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). 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. 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. However, Allen's legal team have chosen their first 14 defendants wisely, they are professionals, such as doctors and lawyers and Mancuso, because they have money. Kelly, a Baltimore lawyer who filed a Masha's Law claim earlier this year against more than 80 men for two sisters who were aged seven and nine. 'These are the types of people who aren't motivated to settle - or even defend - a lawsuit,' said Steven J. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Filing $20 million Lawsuit: Masha Allen, ,left, looks on as CNN anchorwoman Nancy Grace testifies on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, before the Congressional Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee
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