<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A 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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, is fighting child abuse charges brought over the book </span><em><span>Daddy's Little Toy </span></em><span>which she wrote under the pen name Tori Woods.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/jeffrey-epstein-private-island-photos-released-by-us-democrats/8d16588d-2e86-4ea9-94e0-0437fe1d8fe4" target="_blank"><strong><span>Disturbing unseen images of Epstein's private island lair revealed</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/jacinta-allan-victoria-1000-public-service-jobs-to-go-in-huge-budget-cuts/3aed8f6d-4a57-4006-a356-9334d91e4047" target="_blank"><strong><span>1000 jobs slashed in $4 billion public service bloodbath</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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 today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mastrosa is fighting allegations that she possessed, disseminated or produced child abuse material.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/lauren-ashley-mastrosa-cop-says-daddy-dom-book-included-child-abuse-material/40867bba-5926-4e65-9f08-f9e80a22c345" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her barrister Margaret Cunneen SC questioned police suggestions that the novel contained child abuse material at all.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Senior Constable Liam Matson was tasked with reading the entire novel.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He testified that it contained parts depicting offensive content with someone implied to be a child.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Cunneen said the character Lucy – who worked in a toy store and who wore children's clothing – was aged 18 throughout the novel.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Do you know anything about the area of sexual fantasy which is called daddy dom little girl?" she asked</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I have done some light reading," he replied.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/social-media-ban-australia-how-it-will-be-enforced-explained/ec113782-085b-4510-b3b6-1b264e0f587e" target="_blank"><strong><span>How Australia's world-leading social media ban will be enforced</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Arthur wanted a woman as sweet and as nice as Lucy was when she was a three-year-old, he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It sounds like he wants a three-year-old to me," the officer said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is sexual stuff in the book that starts when she is three."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mastrosa was seen sitting beside her husband shaking her head in court as Sen Const Matson argued the book portrayed Lucy at different ages.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The officer also said a part where the fictional toy store worker was being spanked was an example of assault.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He also said police received no formal training in classifying child abuse material in line with commonwealth legislation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a recorded interview to police played to the court, Mastrosa rejected claims her book contained any child abuse material.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Hell no, that's not it," she told officers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said she had completely shut down any further publication of the novel.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is not something that I want out there if it is incriminating unintentionally," she told police.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Only 21 people had received digital copies of the book and no physical copies had been posted, she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Magistrate Bree Chisholm heard that police officers had not read the novel when they arrested Mastrosa.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Instead, they had acted on a Crime Stoppers report by someone who themselves had not read the entire book.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Cunneen said her client had no criminal history when she was arrested.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The hearing continues.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>at</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" title="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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