{"id":1522,"date":"2026-02-10T03:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:40:40","slug":"sydney-author-guilty-of-child-abuse-after-book-daddys-little-toy-depicted-adult-role-playing-as-toddler-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy\u2019s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Christian author behind an \u201cundeniably offensive\u201d toddler-roleplaying novel could face time behind bars after the book was found to contain child abuse material.<\/p>\n

Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, wrote Daddy\u2019s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods and published it through an online pre-release in March.<\/p>\n

The book is about an 18-year-old woman named Lucy who roleplays as a toddler with Arthur, an older man who is her father\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n

Mastrosa was charged after the book sparked outrage and on Tuesday was found guilty of three child abuse material charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant has written a book that sexually objectifies children,\u201d magistrate Bree Chisholm said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reader is left with a description that creates the visual image in one\u2019s mind of an adult male engaging in sexual activity with a young child.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Lauren Mastrosa issued a pre-release of the novel to 21 advance readers in March before a complaint about its content was made to police.<\/span> Photograph: Dan Himbrechts\/AAP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 34-year-old sat with her husband in a packed courtroom at Blacktown local court as the magistrate read out details from the 210-page novel.<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s cover is coloured pink pastel with the title spelled out in children\u2019s alphabet blocks, the court heard.<\/p>\n

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A myriad of trigger warnings at the beginning of the book include age gap, daddy kink, infantilisation, physical abuse, profanity, sexually explicit scenes and slut-shaming.<\/p>\n

Lucy\u2019s genitals are described in detail, as is the sexual activity she engages in with Arthur while pretending to be a toddler.<\/p>\n

Chisholm – who sat down to read the entire book – found the female protagonist was implied to be a child despite repeated references to her being 18.<\/p>\n

In the novel, Arthur refers to Lucy as \u201cbaby girl\u201d or \u201cmy little girl\u201d.<\/p>\n

The teen is also described engaging in childlike behaviour such as having tantrums, needing to be bathed, wearing nappies and playing with children\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n

She is also described using child-like language such as \u201cwee wee\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cImportantly, those descriptions and language are used in the portions of the book to describe a character similar to a young child when the sexual activity is occurring,\u201d Chisholm said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe language is repeated again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book invited the reader to imagine the very thing that child abuse material legislation prohibited, she found.<\/p>\n

As such, a reasonable reader would find the book undeniably offensive, the magistrate said in finding Mastrosa guilty of possessing, disseminating and producing child abuse material.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old did not react when the judgment was handed down but sometimes sat with her eyes closed as Chisholm read out her findings.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the trial, Mastrosa\u2019s barrister, Margaret Cunneen SC, questioned police suggestions that the novel contained child abuse material at all.<\/p>\n

Sen Const Liam Matson was tasked with reading the entire novel.<\/p>\n

He testified that it contained parts depicting offensive content with someone implied to be a child.<\/p>\n

Cunneen said the character Lucy \u2013 who worked in a toy store and who wore children\u2019s clothing \u2013 was aged 18 throughout the novel.<\/p>\n

Even if she spoke like a child during sex as a consenting adult, that was role play which was legal, she put to the officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know anything about the area of sexual fantasy which is called daddy dom little girl?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have done some light reading,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

In a pre-release, digital copies of the novel were issued to advance readers.<\/p>\n

A Crime Stoppers complaint led police to find 16 hard copies of the book at Mastrosa\u2019s home while executing a search warrant in March.<\/p>\n

She wore sunglasses and did not speak to reporters as she left court with her husband and lawyer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

She remains on bail and will be sentenced on 28 April.<\/p>\n