AN EROTIC author has denied she’s a paedophile after writing a “graphic” story about a man’s sick desire for a toddler.
Lauren Ashley Mastrosa – pen name Tori Woods – wrote “Daddy’s Little Toy” as a way to cope with her cancer diagnosis and multiple miscarriages, a court has heard.
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Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, who moonlights as a taboo erotic fiction author, leaves court in Sydney Credit: Alamy
The novel depicted an 18-year-old woman roleplaying as a toddler with an older manCredit: INSTAGRAM
The former marketing executive for a Christian charity was found guilty of penning child abuse material and will be put on the child protection register for eight years.
Despite the maximum penalty for the charges being 10 years’ imprisonment, she was spared any jail time and slapped with an 18 month community corrections order instead.
The 34-year-old married mum from Sydney, Australia, published the erotic novel online in March last year and was read by 21 advanced readers.
The 210-page book centres on Lucy, an 18-year-old woman who role-plays as a toddler with Arthur, an older man who is her father’s 45-year-old best friend.
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Mastrosa was an employee at a Christian charityCredit: linkedin
She was sentenced to an 18 month community corrections order Credit: Alamy
While in the novel the relationship is consensual, it details the older man’s desires for Lucy when she was a child.
All copies have since been destroyed and Mastrosa poses no further risk to the community, her barrister Margaret Cunneen said.
Cunneen added: “She’s not a paedophile, she’s someone who wrote a book which offended against the law.
“She was planning to write an erotic book, she wasn’t planning to write child abuse material.
Mastrosa lost her job as a marketing executive for Christian charity BaptistCare, had been exposed to online death threats and vitriol, and would never write anything like the book again, Cunneen said.
But judge Bree Chisholm gave her a criminal conviction anyway
“I cannot justify a non-conviction ever being appropriate given the extent that the defendant wrote about sexual activity with such a young child,” she said at Tuesday’s sentencing.
Mastrosa with her husband leaving court Credit: Alamy
Chisholm said Mastrosa had set out to deliberately write a novel where the “core purpose” was profit off the fetishisation of young children.
“The character was fictional and, from the beginning of the book, was set out as an 18-year-old woman, but … [she] played a role-playing character that was clearly a very young child,” Chisholm said.
“The nature was explicit and graphic. The descriptions went for chapters. It was very sexual and the child was very young.”
In a previous hearing, Chisholm said she read the book and rejected the claims from the defence that the character was not implied to be a child.
“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,” she said.
