Sex-slave horror prompts new scrutiny

[ckramer]

The heart-wrenching case of the millionaire pedophile who adopted a 5-year-old girl to be his sex toy is prompting closer scrutiny of the loosely regulated, big-money adoption industry.

“If we can’t sell blood, we can’t sell organs, why would we be able to sell the entire human being?” asked Maureen Flatley, a Bay State adoption lobbyist who is advising the now 13-year-old victim, Masha Allen.

Masha’s former adopted father, Matthew Mancuso, 47, hand-picked the little girl from a Russian orphanage even though his home didn’t have a bedroom for her. She slept in his bed.

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[Lars39]

1. I am really uncomfortable with her name & picture being posted

in the article. How is this in her best interests?

[nodehopper]

2. she was just on Oprah

she was speaking out about her experiences. She is not five anymore, she is thirteen now, if I remember correctly, I believe it was her choice to go on record publically about this.

[Child_Of_Isis]

3. she is thirteen now

Probably too old for him now. I am sure they will sell the evil bastard a younger one when no one is looking.

:argh:

[nodehopper]

9. yeah

her attorney was complaining that he is in a comfy prison where he is well-fed, and how he had her on a restricted diet to make sure she looked skinny and to postpone puberty.

yeah, people suck.

[LisaL]

10. I doubt he will be adopting any more children. He is in prison

on porn charges.

[Teaser]

12. I bet he's having a good time...

he is now bottom of the prison food chain. They love pedophiles in there...often to death.

[LisaL]

13. I am sure nobody will cry if they do.

[Child_Of_Isis]

17. Most likely his money will buy him protection... eom

[InsultComicDog]

19. I wonder if at 13 one can understand the implications of that choice

Nevertheless, I hope it works out for the best for her.

[Harper_is_Bush]

4. She looks empowered with her new foster parent.

It's a beautiful picture. I'm happy for her, I think she'll be Ok.

[loudsue]

8. You're right. It is HIS picture that should be plastered all over the

internet, and every major newspaper.

What a frikkin' scumbag. O8) I hope that in due time the little girl heals from this horrible experience.

That man should spend the rest of his living days in gitmo.

:kick:

[seriousstan]

11. Here is his picture.....

[Rich Hunt]

16. yeesh

Scary look in that guy's eyes.

[WinkyDink]

41. "Run-away Bride" eyes!

Fa-reaky.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. I'm utterly disgusted by humanity

What a fucking wretched sonuvabitch. Ugh.

[Child_Of_Isis]

18. I'm utterly disgusted by humanity

I understand. When I read shit like this I am like "send in the nukes, wipe them all out". If I have to go in the process, so be it.

[Tight_rope]

61. My thoughts exactly...n/t

[bleedingheart]

6. When I first read about the case I thought that man should have been

beaten to near death with a ball bat and then revived for another beating ...

what he did was unspeakable...even starving her to try and prevent her body from maturing....he was a sick sick bastard...

[0007]

7. Sick0 sickO sicko

[Name removed]

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[LisaL]

15. Child porn charges. He took pornographic pictures of the

adopted child.

[High Plains]

20. The issue here is abuse of the adoption laws.

Nice try, though.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

27. no the issue here is abhorent behavior on the part of a Human

unacceptable...by any standards.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

65. Check your inbox. -nt

[nodehopper]

21. huh?

[northzax]

25. really? cause I kinda like the porn

and the idea of a 5 year old sickens me. add 15 years and we'll talk.

there is a lot of stuff that is legal for adults and sickening when applied to children. get off it.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

26. it's addictive with an ever increasing threshold-

I advocate overcoming our natural animal urges through self discipline.
Why?
Because the purpose of life is beyond self enjoyment/self gratification.
How do I know that?
I'd like to think anyone who opens their eyes even a little bit would know that.

Moderation in everything helps prevent extreme behaviors.

Those who are less able to defend themselves deserve our mercy and our help...
This includes misguided teens and of course children as well who are forced into porn-
(either physically or through desperation)
so,...support the porn you may as well support the destruction of others-
(with your dollars going to perpetuate the exploitation)

But let's face it, sex urges are natural-
Sex made each and every one of us and it is normal.

-it's the over-emphasisis on sex and self-gratifaction
that can be ever so cruel and destructive.

[Porcupine]

29. Um, since most of us aren't Vulcan can we just boink adults only?

and for those of us, myself included, who are too ugly to get off without paid assistance can we just go ahead and pay the many ADULT sex workers who are eager to scim off 2-5 days wages for a few minutes light labor. To be fair I draw the line at the occasional lap dance but wtf? Why should there be a line before somebody gets physically injured.

Sex work is safer than crab fishing, farming or tree climbing. Should we eliminate those jobs too? I've been on roofs in howling storms for 12 bucks an hour; tell me sex workers have it tougher.

There is no excuse for what this man did to this girl. There is also no excuse for allowing the conditions where she could be sold to him. Many kids in Brazil have it WORSE. There are places where death squads shoot street kids and we do nothing. Eliminate that.

Flame on.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

49. there ya go-you don't think this PERVE was a porn user? where'd he get the

ideas ? Ideas which he acted upon?
On his own?
Nope--but even if he did, watching enough kiddie porn movies
got him soooo worked up he had to do something about it.
His WEAK mindedness allowed him to submit to his own bodily urges.
Not Good.

Yeah, your argument suppiorting exploitation doesn't work.
(like Bernie would say)
:I guess slavery isn't bad either--there are people starving in Africa who are much worse off
and would just love to work on a Southern Plantation-

Try listening to Bernie Wark 10pm to 1AM pacific time M-F
http://www.KGO.com

Now Bernie understands progressive thinking.

[mondo joe]

52. He was probably a shampoo user too.

Maybe shampoo causes people to hurt kids.

I don't know where you got all this shame but you sound like a catholic 1950's catechism.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

55. he used toilet paper and kleenex too- to wipe up when he was done

You really gross me out when you support perves!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

64. What pervs is he supporting? -nt

[mondo joe]

78. Which perv(s) am I supporting? Please be specific.

And please try to stick to the truth.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

36. I don't know what you said in your deleted post

was it the outlawing of all pornography or something even more outrageous?

As it is, your seem to want to ban any and all kind of entertainment. Because, you know, the purpose of life is beyond self enjoyment/self gratification.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

45. I didn't have any deleted posts--What are you talking about?

and said nothing of laws.
Everything about what you OVER Emphasise in your life.

No one wants to "BAN" anything.
Freedom is what I promote-
Freedom to think beyond the corporate veil that emphasises self gratification and sex.

[redqueen]

57. Post 14.

Find a new hobby already.

Sheesh.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

76. find a black king --lol!!

[mondo joe]

39. So you'd like to force your "purpose of life" on everyone else?

Nice.

:eyes:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

48. don't Force anything- how bout suggesting that jackin to porn

doesn't bring about very creative thinking.

Nobody wants laws banning anything.

I we'd all just get our head out of each others' crotches, the world could be a better place.

Hands off the weenies and hands on the pens and pencils!!

We need creative solutions to important issues --
Get moving!

[mondo joe]

50. But you're the one who says you know the "purpose of life".

But if you think we needs to get our heads out of each other's crotches, I suggest you begin with yourself.

(And on another note: as if there isn't enough time in the day to get your hand on a pencil AND a penis. Silly, silly, silly.)

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

53. -Jacking off is not the way to get things done-Get on with bigger

and better ways to spend your precious thoughts!!
We have a planet that needs you.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

62. Watching football is not the way to get things done either.

All entertainment is bad! :sarcasm:

[asthmaticeog]

72. Best post ever.

:rofl:

[mondo joe]

77. It's a great way to get one thing done.

Why are you so shamed by physical gratification?

[mongo]

40. More propaganda

Glad to see that a new age fundimentalist can use propaganda just as well as xtian fundimentalists.

Porn is not "addicting". That is a totally baseless charge, not backed by studies etc.

To say so cheapens the struggle of people who battle REAL addictions -- to ADDICTIVE substances.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

46. Porn dealers pormote porn-They promote corporatism-they destroy

free thought-
Freedom is precious-
Freedom from bowing to each personal bodily urge is the very first step in freedom.

[mondo joe]

51. Nothing wrong with bodily urges. We are our bodies.

You seem to have bsorbed some sort of shame.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

54. ha ha-WE are NOT our Bodies-LOL!-martial arts and spiritual groups agree

We are not the body--
I suggest transcending the body my friend-

good things await those who have the strength.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. Didn't you have a comet to catch or something? -nt

[Misunderestimator]

67. Oh.

:rofl:

[Lance_Boyle]

70. transcending the body?

isn't that death?

No thanks. I'd rather be blind and hairy-palmed.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

75. Don't bother trying to understand the concept-

to die every day-while alive--

And for those who don't already understand--don't bother trying-

[mondo joe]

80. I hate to see such puritan thinking on DU.

Really, the shame of the body is just a shame.

[Blue-Jay]

82. That reply is such bullshit.

Are you so fucking enlightened that you can't bother responding to a few simple questions?

What? Either you know what's what or "sod off"? Is that what you're saying, Skippy?

[mondo joe]

79. No, we are our bodies. You have no existence except as your

body.

Please stick to the facts.

[mongo]

56. Why don't you stop breathing

It's a bodily urge you know....

[redqueen]

58. .

:rofl:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

74. i do THAT- I work on it every day-to slow the breath to two per minute-

try it for 40 days-
you'll never be the same again

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. Given that mongo isn't willing to change businesses anytime soon...

...what you think should happen with him?

[Name removed]

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[hang a left]

23. whoa....

that is quite a statement. You should think about using the edit feature.

[LisaL]

24. Shrub did enough of the awful things -no reason to make up

stupid shit like that.

[Ouabache]

28. search opensecrets.org to see if he donated

to the GOP

[Porcupine]

30. The conditions that feed this are ECONOMIC!!!!

If we tolerate the poverty we tolerate the sex trade. It's just that simple. Even desperate drug addicts will not sell out their children if there is any other way to get thier fix. Mostly not even then.

In several countries that I can name however there are thousands of children with no homes and no hope of one. There are countries in Latin American where death squads routinely kill street children and the authorities do nothing. Until every child has a place out of the weather, a kind voice to stand for them, health care, food and clean water this trade will continue.

If we tolerate poverty we tolerate child sex trade. Period.

[LisaL]

33. He abused his own child too, and he is a millionaire.

[redqueen]

59. You've missed the point.

It's not poverty that creates pedophiles... it's poverty that creates the situations wherein millionaire pedophiles can buy children.

[LisaL]

69. And if they can't buy them, they just use their own, as this guy did.

[redqueen]

71. That kind of depravity isn't related to poverty, no. The opportunism...

that's a different story.

[mondo joe]

81. As if most pedophiles "buy" children anyway.

This is an exceptional case.

Not being a millionaire hasn't prevented any pedophiles from molesting that I know of.

[bleedingheart]

34. I woman approached a friend of mine in Baltimore offering her child

for sale...

My friend (a woman) was so unnerved by the experience that she didn't know what to do... Her boyfriend later said she should have bought the kid and turned her over to state authorities. The mother was clearly drug addicted and in need of cash...sadly who knows what happened to that child.

When there are too many people and severe poverty...life is cheap.

[LisaL]

44. Yes, she should have reported this woman to the police.

Because the next person might actually buy this child.

[redqueen]

60. Amen!

:yourock:

[OneBlueSky]

31. back in the 70s, when I was providing specialized foster care . . .

for troubled kids, the caseworker came to my home and spent an hour or more chatting with me and the kid(s) every week . . . and I wasn't even planning to adopt . . . allowing "rescued" kids to still fall through the cracks AFTER they've been placed is beyond negligent -- it's criminal, imo . . .

[fasttense]

32. You think this is awful? What kind of stories do you think Michael

Jackson's children are going to tell?

Flame away you Jackson fans.

[KansDem]

38. No flame from me...

Why that thing is still walking free is beyond me...


fourth-story balcony

Putting aside his "naps" with boys, he should at least have been brought up on child endangerment charges for this stunt.

[Debbi801]

35. Is this the little girl who was abused at Disney World?....

I remember a year or so ago, there was a big internet/news public search happening.

[BlueInPhilly]

37. And they wouldn't let gay couples adopt! N/T

[LisaL]

42. Considering the person who adopted her was a single man,

thats neither here nor there.
:shrug:

[LisaL]

43. Yes.

[Megahurtz]

47. Somebody just shoot this guy in the head.

It's not even human and it doesn't deserve to live.:nuke:

[TexasLawyer]

68. has the father been convicted?

The story is pretty light on the details.

[Sven77]

73. Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away

Halliburton, Dyncorp lobbyists stall law banning human trafficking and sex slavery

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm