Mastrosa, 34, issued an advance release of the novel – which the BBC has chosen not to name – to 21 readers in March last year before a complaint about its content was made to police.<\/p>\n
Chisholm read the whole book, published under the pen name Tori Woods, and found a reasonable reader would find it “undeniably offensive”.<\/p>\n
Throughout the novel – the cover of which is pastel pink with the title spelled out in children’s alphabet blocks – the protagonist uses child-like language, wears children’s clothing, and engages in child-like behaviour.<\/p>\n
Chisholm said any references to the character being 18 were insufficient to overcome the implication of her as a child.<\/p>\n
“Importantly, 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,” Chisholm said, according to the Australian Associated Press.<\/p>\n
“The reader is left with a description that creates the visual image in one’s mind of an adult male engaging in sexual activity with a young child.”<\/p>\n
Found guilty of one count each of creating, possessing and distributing child abuse material, Mastrosa will return to court to be sentenced on 28 April.<\/p>\n
When Mastrosa was charged, BaptistCare told the Daily Telegraph she had been stood down from her role pending an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mastrosa, 34, issued an advance release of the novel – which the BBC has chosen not to name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-417857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}