
He had molested Rachelle as a child, they said. When I first found out that he adopted a little girl I should have spoke up, I should have said something. I feel somehow responsible," Rachelle said.īut McDade and her daughter both say they were never contacted by adoption authorities. Mancuso is very capable, willing and well-prepared to provide a stable and loving home." Instead, Mancuso's agency relied on a home study prepared by a Pittsburgh social worker. "It doesn't appear that they talked to anybody about Mancuso, that they simply took what Mancuso said to them at face value and placed this child with him," said Maureen Flatley, a lobbyist who specializes in adoption and child welfare.

She has also been hired by Masha's lawyer to find out how a pedophile could have adopted a young child.
