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Masha Allen was adopted in 1998 at the age of 5 from Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov, Russia into the US by a single male pedophile, Matthew Mancuso. Masha was sexually abused for five years and also became the subject of child pornography. In 2006 she testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committy. In 2008 the news broke that abuse supposedly had again taken place by Faith Allen/Lynn Ginn, the woman who had adopted her immediately after Masha's "rescue" from Mancuso.

Khan, Ummni. Having Your Porn and Condemning it Too: A Case Study of a "Kiddie Porn" Expose. In Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2009).

In 2005, the Toronto Police Department’s Sex Crime Unit embarked upon the unprecedented move to go public with forensic evidence related to an on-going child pornography investigation. This strategy provided the public with exceptional glimpses into the taboo arena of child pornography. In this article, I trace the media coverage of this investigation to highlight the rhetorical and aesthetic components that, I posit, are related to a pedophilic logic. My goal is to reveal the latent but omnipresent desire encoded in the media narratives to imagine children and childhood in sexualized contexts.
In particular, my analysis maps the literary and photographic aspects of the coverage to highlight the “performative contradiction” of the texts; though the media articulated a one-dimensional story of outrage and condemnation, the rhetorical and pictorial aspects of the story produced meanings that undermined the purported censure of child sexualization.

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That the media makes news, and does not merely relate facts, has been widely posited among media and criminology experts. Newsmakers are not purely fact-finders disseminating the “truth” to the public, but are implicated in for-profit business values and structures that influence, if not completely overdetermine, a hegemonic social construction of reality.

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After broadcasting Allen and Rachelle’s horrific accounts of child abuse, Winfrey brings Zaglifa on stage to discuss his investigation of Mancuso. She culminates this interview with the question, “Now what have you learned, Mike, while tracking pedophiles online, that parents need to know?” His response is decisive, “the number one thing is no chat rooms.” He explains
that even if a chat room appears innocuous, there are always “predators” who will attempt to lure the child into some form of sexual dialogue.

Although this information might make sense if Winfrey had done a show where she interviewed children lured by strangers on the internet, in this context the information misdirects the focus of the recounted abuse. Consider who was behind the abuse that Allen and Rachelle suffered. Allen’s biological father abandoned her, her bio logical mother attempted to murder her and her adoptive father, Mancuso, sex ually abused her until he was arrested. Rachelle’s biological father, Mancuso, sexually abused her until she reached puberty. Mancuso was never charged with abusing anyone other than his biological and his adopted daughter. In every instance of abuse chronicled in the show, it was a parent who was the perpetrator. Yet, Winfrey rounds off her show by focussing on stranger danger.

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Ultimately, I end my analysis by arguing that the media coverage served not to protect children, but to protect adults from acknowledging the primary role that mainstream society, and in particular the institution of the family, play in making children vulnerable to child sexual abuse.

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