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<\/p>\nA taboo book written by a Christian charity marketing executive contained references to “sexual stuff” with a young child, the police officer tasked with reading the novel has said.<\/p>\n
Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, is fighting child abuse charges brought over the book Daddy’s Little Toy which she wrote under the pen name Tori Woods.<\/p>\n
The Sydney woman issued a pre-release of the novel to 21 advance readers in March before a complaint about its content was made to NSW Police.<\/p>\n
The book was about an 18-year-old woman named Lucy who worked in a toy store and who role-played as a child with an older man, Blacktown Local Court was told during a hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mastrosa is fighting allegations that she possessed, disseminated or produced child abuse material.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, her barrister Margaret Cunneen SC questioned police suggestions that the novel contained child abuse material at all.<\/p>\n
Senior Constable 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’s clothing \u2013 was aged 18 throughout the novel.<\/p>\n
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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
“Do you know anything about the area of sexual fantasy which is called daddy dom little girl?” she asked<\/p>\n
“I have done some light reading,” he replied.<\/p>\n
Matson disagreed Lucy was always aged 18 throughout the novel, pointing to a section early on in the book written from the perspective of a man named Arthur.<\/p>\n
Arthur wanted a woman as sweet and as nice as Lucy was when she was a three-year-old, he said.<\/p>\n
“It sounds like he wants a three-year-old to me,” the officer said.<\/p>\n
“There is sexual stuff in the book that starts when she is three.”<\/p>\n
Mastrosa was seen sitting beside her husband shaking her head in court as Matson argued the book portrayed Lucy at different ages.<\/p>\n
The officer also said a part where the fictional toy store worker was being spanked was an example of assault.<\/p>\n
He conceded any references to sexual intercourse or touching only took place in sections of Daddy’s Little Toy where the main character was 18.<\/p>\n
He also said police received no formal training in classifying child abuse material in line with commonwealth legislation.<\/p>\n
In a recorded interview to police played to the court, Mastrosa rejected claims her book contained any child abuse material.<\/p>\n
“Hell no, that’s not it,” she told officers.<\/p>\n
She said she had completely shut down any further publication of the novel.<\/p>\n
“This is not something that I want out there if it is incriminating unintentionally,” she told police.<\/p>\n
Only 21 people had received digital copies of the book and no physical copies had been posted, she said.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Bree Chisholm heard that police officers had not read the novel when they arrested Mastrosa.<\/p>\n
Instead, they had acted on a Crime Stoppers report by someone who themselves had not read the entire book.<\/p>\n
Cunneen said her client had no criminal history when she was arrested.<\/p>\n
Police had been unable to find a skerrick of child abuse material other than that allegedly contained within the novel on the mobile phones and laptops seized during a search of Mastrosa’s Quakers Hill home, she said.<\/p>\n
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