The author behind an offensive novel depicting toddler role-play has been convicted but spared jail for penning child abuse material.<\/p>\n
Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, a 34-year-old former marketing executive for a Christian charity, wrote Daddy\u2019s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods and published it through an online pre-release in March 2025.<\/p>\n
The book \u2013 which was read by 21 advance readers \u2013 is about an 18-year-old woman named Lucy who role-plays as a toddler with Arthur, an older man who is her father\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n
Mastrosa appeared for sentencing at Blacktown local court in western Sydney<\/a> almost three months after being found guilty of three child abuse material offences relating to the novel.<\/p>\n The judge, Bree Chisholm, convicted the 34-year-old and imposed an 18-month community corrections order.<\/p>\n \u201cI cannot justify a non-conviction ever being appropriate given the extent that the defendant wrote about sexual activity with such a young child,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n While Mastrosa had seemed shocked at her arrest and cooperated fully with police, she had spent months writing highly sexualised content involving a young girl that spanned chapters of the book, Chisholm found.<\/p>\n \u201cGeneral deterrence looms large and the sexual exploitation of children even from such an unsuspecting defendant cannot be minimised.\u201d<\/p>\n Mastrosa gasped, closed her eyes and covered her mouth as the sentence was handed down and she was placed on the child protection register for eight years.<\/p>\n