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Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods. (AAP)<\/p>\nAn author who penned a taboo novel containing sexualised content involving a teen pretending to be a toddler has launched a legal challenge against her conviction.<\/p>\n
Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, is a former marketing executive for a Christian charity who wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods.<\/p>\n
In April, she was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order for the book, which was released to a handful of earlier readers in March 2025.<\/p>\n
Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods. (AAP)<\/p>\n
It was pulled from wider publication after a CrimeStoppers complaint led to her arrest.<\/p>\n
The novel featured an 18-year-old woman named Lucy who role-plays as a toddler with Arthur, an older man who is her father’s best friend.<\/p>\n
After her sentence Mastrosa immediately filed an appeal of her sentence and conviction, which placed her on the Child Protection Register for eight years.<\/p>\n
The details of her legal challenge were seen by AAP yesterday.<\/p>\n
In April, Judge Bree Chisholm found the 34-year-old spent months writing highly sexualised content involving a young girl that spanned chapters of the book.<\/p>\n
“General deterrence looms large and the sexual exploitation of children even from such an unsuspecting defendant cannot be minimised,” the judge said at the time.<\/p>\n
Earlier, high-profile criminal barrister Margaret Cunneen SC argued her client had simply made a mistake.<\/p>\n
“She was planning to write an erotic book, she wasn’t planning to write child abuse material,” Cunneen told the court.<\/p>\n
“She’s not a pedophile, she’s someone who wrote a book which offended against the law.”<\/p>\n
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Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa. (LinkedIn)<\/p>\n
Prosecutors pushed for a conviction, saying the book normalised child abuse material and fuelled the market of child exploitation.<\/p>\n
In the novel, Arthur refers to Lucy as “baby girl” or “my little girl”.<\/p>\n
The teen is also described as engaging in child-like behaviour such as having tantrums, needing to be bathed, wearing nappies and playing with children’s toys.<\/p>\n
Mastrosa was found guilty of producing, possessing and distributing child abuse material.<\/p>\n
Her appeal will come before Parramatta District Court next month.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old was stood down from her role as a marketing executive for Christian charity BaptistCare when the allegations came to light and her employment has since ended.<\/p>\n