Update: Girl Featured in Pornographic Photos Found
May 14, 2005 1:02 p.m. EST

PENNSYLVANIA (AHN) - A girl at the center of an international search after she was seen in 200 sexually explicit Internet photographs - including more than a dozen taken at a Walt Disney World hotel - has been found living in a Pennsylvania foster home.Police reported Friday that the Russian-born girl, now 11 or 12-years-old, was adopted by her abuser when she was about five and brought to the United States.
Her adoptive father, Matthew Mancuso, was arrested in Pittsburgh two years ago on federal child-pornography charges and is serving a 15-year prison sentence."I think he should die in prison," said Lt. Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff's Sex Crimes Unit. "If his sentence is anything short of that, he should be prosecuted here in Orlando."Orange County investigators entered the case after the Toronto police Internet-porn unit, fearing the girl in the images was still being abused, released some of the photos with the child's face digitally removed. Among the photos, which circulated on the Internet for more than three years, were several that appeared to have been taken in a hotel room. Tips suggested the room was at the Port Orleans Resort at Disney World.According to investigators, the Disney photographs were taken when the victim was 7 or 8 years old in the spring of 2000. The photos show she was raped in a hotel elevator and in a guest room, each of which would be a capital crime carrying a mandatory life sentence.Last month, authorities in Orlando released images of a second girl who was not being molested but appeared in photos that shared the same background. Irwin said Friday that girl was the victim's neighbor and friend who accompanied the victim and her abuser on a trip to Orlando.The Internet photos sparked international outrage and more than 600 calls to Orange County investigators.What Irwin and the Canadian authorities who started the investigation did not know, was that an FBI Internet-pornography task force in Pittsburgh arrested Mancuso in May 2003.
Investigators said Friday they are unsure whether the girl in the Pennsylvania case is the same child photographed at the Disney hotel. The victim seen in the photos at Disney had been in foster care since her adoptive father's arrest.State and federal officials located the girl after they found a match in one of several law-enforcement databases of child pornography. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson in Washington, D.C. said the FBI received information Thursday that connected the Pennsylvania and Florida cases.

Photos released in attacks on child
Last Updated Feb 3 2005 11:55 AM EST
CBC News
TORONTO – Toronto police have released photos taken at various crime scenes in their hunt for a suspect in the sexual assault of a young girl.The photos are being distributed in hopes that someone will recognize where they were taken and contact investigators.*
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In their original forms, the pictures show the child being sexually assaulted.Police have digitally removed the victim's image from all of the photographs.
They hope that identifying the location of the assaults will help them identify both the victim and the suspect.
Toronto police don't know if the images originated in the city, but said they took up the case after finding the pictures repeatedly in local child-porn cases.
"I would say, in the last two years, we've arrested about 70 or 80 people and I would say at least 50 per cent of them have different pictures from this series," said Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie.
"This is one of the most popular series on the internet that pedophiles will save and trade with each other. This is like the 'must have' if you are a bad guy."
Forensic examinations suggest the photos were taken between 2001 and 2002 and involved a girl who was about nine years old at the time.
The victim is thought to live in the northeast United States or southeastern Canada, although Gillespie would not say what factors led to that suspicion.
She is described as white with long, blonde hair.

Two-Nation Hunt For Sex Abuser
NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2005
Authorities in Canada and the U.S. are working together to identify a young girl, believed to be the victim of sexual abuse, whose pictures have been on Internet child pornography sites for years.
In an unusual step, they're releasing a series of photographs, from which the child has been digitally removed, in an effort to get the public’s help.
CBS News correspondent Jim Acosta reports that the girl is believed to be white, blonde and 9 to 12 years old. She is possibly from the northeastern U.S or southeastern Canada and was abused by somebody, possibly a relative or caregiver, who posted the photos on child pornography Web sites.
Anyone with information can log on to to www.ice.Gov or call the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children cyber tipline at 1-800-843-5678.
Using the background in some of the photos, which have been on the Web for more than a year, authorities have identified as the crime scene one of the rooms in Disney World's Port Orleans French Quarter resort. Disney officials and authorities in Florida's Orange County are said to be cooperating with Canadian authorities in the case.
"We are in the middle of questioning staff that have been there since that time period, going through logs, because we have a lot of information on what the inside of the hotel room looks like," Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police Service told Acosta.
Officials said they took the unusual step of releasing the photos in the hope that someone who was there at the time might recognize the room and other locations at the theme park and perhaps lead police to the little girl and the culprit. The pictures showed an elevator, a fountain and a bed in a hotel room.
In an interview Wednesday on The Early Show , Marcy Forman, director of the office of investigations for the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency (ICE), said officials are worried about the child’s safety.
"The faster we find her, the easier we could rest," Forman said. "We're working diligently with the sheriff's office in Florida and with the Toronto police department."
ICE is a division of the Department of Homeland Security which in 2003 started Operation Predator to identify, investigate and arrest sexual predators. Forman said it had been cooperating in the case, even before the crime scene was identified as a Florida hotel.
Why didn’t officials release a photo of the girl, even just her face?
"In some instances, it helps to identify the victim," said Forman. "But in most instances, we want to protect the privacy and the safety of the victim. That's why we are only releasing the photos of the location we believe that the abuse took place."
Officials say more than 50,000 children are being used for Internet pornography and so far only about 500 of them have been identified.
Toronto police reportedly has one of the largest and most sophisticated child pornography units in North America. The girl came to the attention of the then two-year-old unit in 2002.

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