Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds

Australian author Lauren Mastrosa, writing under the pen name Tori Woods, has been found guilty in a New South Wales court of creating child sex abuse material. The charges stem from her erotic age-gap novel, which details a relationship between an 18-year-old and a much older man, including depictions of child-like behavior and desires that began when the protagonist was a child. Magistrate Bree Chisholm ruled that the book sexually objectifies children, despite the protagonist being identified as an adult. Mastrosa distributed an advance release of the novel to 21 readers in March of last year, prompting a police complaint. Mastrosa, who was a marketing executive for a Christian charity, has been stood down from her role and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 28th.

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