

The agents found computer disks with child pornography - but the biggest discovery was to come from Masha herself. "He wasn't happy that we were there and it was obvious to us," he said. They immediately separated them, and Clinton says he could tell Mancuso was concerned. When they pulled up, they saw Mancuso and Masha outside. On May 27, 2003, federal agents Denise Holtz and Tom Clinton visited Mancuso's home, looking for the photos advertised on the Internet. Zaglifa pretended to want them too, and struck up a conversation with someone using the handle "NkdSister." After chatting with him for a bit, he had a gut feeling - and traced NkdSister's Internet address to Pittsburgh. There is a limited supply of child porn, and so pedophiles are always looking for arousing new images - so when Masha's fresh pictures appeared, this caused a feeding frenzy.

Mike Zaglifa had been posing as a pedophile on the Internet, where obscene pictures of children are often traded like baseball cards. The road to Masha's rescue began hundreds of miles away in the Chicago suburb of Palos Heights. 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. "He'd tell me not to tell anyone, or else something bad would happen," Masha said. To keep her silent he used rewards - as well as threats. "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. And then, a few days later, he started raping her repeatedly - and taking sexually explicit photographs. Then he started touching her private parts. The first couple of nights, he touched her leg or chest. 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 nightmare began when Masha flew home with Mancuso to his modest, middle-class house on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. "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. But there was also something strange about him. Masha said Mancuso was friendly and brought her gifts. 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. Matthew Mancuso had found Masha through an adoption agency in Cherry Hill, N.J. Then one day, a divorced 41-year-old American showed up saying he wanted to adopt her. Her only connection to the "deep web" is that that's largely where the infamous pics and vids are being traded.It was a sad and desperate existence, but because adoption is rare in Russia, Masha expected to live there until she turned 18. And that's all I know about Mariya Babko, most of which is rumor or conjecture. There was little effort by authorities to conceal her identity, as would normally be the protocol in a case such as this, and she has since dropped off the radar.Īll of her personal webpages promoting her modeling career have pulled offline, and very little information can be found on her, however there is a photograph of her in an advertisement for FMD (Fashion Model Directory) and, it's claimed, the picture appears to be current, that is, she looks at least a couple of years older then when last seen. Mariya Babko's mainstream modeling career, which was on the rise to that point, was left in ruins in the wake of the scandal, in particular, the revelation that in a number of videos and pictures she and a girl purported to be her roughly three years younger sister performed sexual acts on each other, and in one video performed oral sex on a man together.Īs the scandal unfolded there were many who felt that Mariya was not a victim in the same way that other sexually abused children are, largely because she was paid extremely well, and also because there was no evidence of coercion.
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She worked with a company called '1st Studio' who outwardly appeared to be a legitimate agency, but produced a series of soft and hardcore pornographic photosets and videos for private collectors under the title 'Siberian Mouse'.Īt some point between 20 a number of these videos and pictures were leaked onto the web and the company promptly shut down their operation. Mariya Babko is a (former?) rusian teen model who, between the ages of roughly 9 or 10 and 13 or 14, was also a "professional" child porn actress/model who went by the name Masha.
