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.' '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.
