Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler
www.theguardian.com
Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifies children’

This is a bit of a weird one. Was trending in the r/books subreddit, so hope its okay that i’ve effectively reposted here.

The headline made me assume she’d been caught disseminating genuine harmful and visual CSAM after having published the book, but the entire contents of the article make it seem like the woman was prosecuted solely on the basis of the book she wrote.

If a book is bad enough to get someone arrested, why was it allowed to be published in the first place?

Nonetheless, I’m hearing from many redditors that her dedication was a sexually suggestive address to her own children. Some also say this dedication was sexually explicit, but i haven’t seen anyone explain why and it didn’t come up in the article itself.

Possibly she was found to be abusing her own children because of the weird dedication to them?

Regardless of whst she was actually arrested for and how fair it is, i was pretty disturbed at how creepy the redditors defending her sounded.

  • I Cast Fist
    7·
    23 hours ago

    The book is about an 18-year-old woman named Lucy who roleplays as a toddler with Arthur, an older man who is her father’s best friend.

    Not my kink, but that shit is not CSAM either

    Chisholm - who sat down to read the entire book - found the female protagonist was implied to be a child despite repeated references to her being 18.

    I wonder how one can claim that a character in a book is a child despite repeated references to her being 18. Maybe he asked the characters’ parents or was suspicious when a fictitious character refused to show him an ID.

    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.

    A Crime Stoppers complaint led police to find 16 hard copies of the book at Mastrosa’s home while executing a search warrant in March.

    So, the only CSAM material found with her are copies of her own book.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Horrible article, to the point that it seems like it might be trying to softball pedophila by presenting it like thats what the accusations were about - the aged-up kink content wasn’t the issue, it was the incredibly graphic sexualized descriptions of a three-year-old from the perspective of an adult man that were the problem. Day-ruining stuff to read, and yeah while I still disagree with the laws (state suppression of art for moral reasons seldom being a win for society) I can really see where they were coming from with this one.