"You can imagine the kind of experiences that she's been through leaves some scars,'' he said. He declined to discuss how his client is doing or whether she is in school or working. Some of those cases have ended with judgments, but Moore did not know if any victims have been able to collect. Some of them are policemen, firefighters.''Ībout a dozen lawsuits have been filed under the 2006 law, but Moore is the first to seek class-action certification, so that his client does not have to endure serial litigation. "If you get down into the court files, and start reading about the images that these people were downloading and viewing for their pleasure, it's frightening and depressing,'' said Leighton Moore, an Atlanta lawyer who represents the young woman. She is notified each time the list grows. More than 2,300 people have been indicted by the Justice Department for viewing Masha's images alone. ‘Bizarre,' Dangerous:' 154 One-Gallon Jugs of Gasoline Found in Abandoned Rowhome On any given day, that could include the man standing behind her in line at the grocery store, the lawsuit said. continue to take sadistic pleasure in viewing and distributing graphic visual depiction of her pain and degradation,'' the lawsuit said. "Scarred by years of brutal exploitation, she must now also bear the humiliating knowledge that untold numbers of men. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported on the lawsuit Tuesday. They come from towns across the U.S., including Stonington, Conn. All of the named defendants are in prison for exploiting her. Her class-action lawsuit, filed Friday in Philadelphia under the name Jane Doe, targets doctors and other professionals like Mancuso who have assets that could be seized. "Why didn't anyone ever check up on me?'' she asked during her testimony before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, according to a transcript. She is now 20 and has changed her name to regain some measure of privacy after testifying in Congress. The FBI sought the identity of the child known as the "Internet Girl'' or "Disney World Girl'' and located Masha in 2003, when she was 10. He's in prison for making and posting about 200 sexually explicit images of her that authorities believe have been viewed millions of times online. "Masha's Law'' is named for Masha Allen, a Russian orphan adopted at age 5 by divorced Pittsburgh-area millionaire Matthew Mancuso. A child pornography victim from Pennsylvania is using a law that carries her name to seek at least $150,000 each from her father, 13 other jailed men and anyone else who viewed explicit images of her.
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