
So why did everyone start talking about Babko again? The broad public never suspected anything about the girl’s suffering all along. She had to change school five times and eventually also abandon the college. Maria admits she has tried to commit suicide three times because of all the bullying both in real life and in the social networks. It was the boys who acted aggressively, humiliated and bullied me. The girls usually just said something along the lines of ‘whore’ or ‘prostitute’. No one suspected a thing before the photos and the videos leaked, because all court hearings were strictly private. My worst life period was between 12 and 16 years, after all that stuff made it to the Internet. Naturally, one cannot lead normal modern life in isolation from the Internet and all that gets posted there, so other children began bullying the girl. Why did I turn out so popular in the end? Because I received the most custom orders. Even now, you can still find some of these on 2ch.hk and in social media.Īccording to Babko herself, she became so popular simply because she starred in the most videos. Why did Babko become so popular?ĭespite the fact that distribution of child pornography is forbidden by law in Russia, screenshots and photos of the girl became the source of numerous ‘CP’-themed jokes and memes (CP stands for ‘Child Porn’ in English). Everyone was terribly afraid of their parents finding out, but when it all surfaced online, we felt it was the end. Many said back then that the police dumped it because they had it. In the end, Kropotchkin was sentenced for 14 years in maximum-security penal colony, but many of his photos, videos and screenshots made it to the Internet, inexplicably.Įven now, no one is sure how all that stuff leaked online.

We went on a walk once, and Tanya suddenly approached me and said, ‘He was arrested, that’s it, now we’re f****d.’ I felt my heart sink. This is a rumor I heard from the other girls.

When they detained that man, I believe even the OMON Special Police Force was present. When he found out that she had money he never gave to her personally, she revealed to him where she got it. As it turned out, the father of that friend of hers was a police officer. He was detained shortly before her twelfth birthday.Īs fas as I know, there was a girl who invited her friend to the video shoot. In an interview Maria Babko gave to journalists, she said the became acquainted with the photographer back when she was 10. Kporotchkin – who the children affectionately called Uncle Seriozha – filmed the videos in his rental apartment, advertising his studio exclusively to foreign customers as «Siberian Mouse» (or «1st studio»). Two and a half years later, the court found him guilty of 145 cases of violence. In November 2011, police in Novosibirsk detained Sergei Kropotchkin, 52, photographer, over alleged filming of pornographic videos featuring underage girls. The girl was found to be the victim of multiple criminal cases connected with pedophilia, as well as making and distribution of child porn. Her popularity came to her quite against her will, when she was just 14. But Babko is by no means a new acquaintance for the Russian Internet audience. MDK and Animemes are only two examples of public pages using her new photos as the background. In February 2019, photos of a girl called Maria Babko started appearing in many popular communities and on many social pages. However, Internet popularity found her when she was still a child specifically, when she became the victim of several pedophilia and child pornography cases, and her photos somehow leaked online. Babko started her own Vkontakte and Instagram accounts where she talks with her subscribers. Photos of Maria Babko have been constantly cropping up on social network pages in the winter of 2019 – indeed, the girl has become the icon of several community pages.

Who is Maria Babko, why is she popular and what does ‘Siberian Mouse’ mean?
