Author Lauren Mastrosa is found guilty of creating child abuse material after writing erotic novel ‘Daddy’s Little Toy’

A Christian charity marketing executive and author of a taboo ‘daddy dom’ novel could face prison time after the book was found to contain child abuse material.

Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods.

The book is about an 18-year-old woman named Lucy, who roleplays as a toddler with an older man.

Mastrosa was charged after the book sparked outrage, and on Tuesday, she was found guilty of three child abuse material charges in a Sydney court.

‘The defendant has written a book that sexually objectifies children,’ magistrate Bree Chisholm said.

‘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.

‘There is no literary merit to a book written to profit from the sexual exploitation of children.’

The 210-page book’s cover is coloured in pink pastel with the title spelled out in children’s alphabet blocks.

The magistrate found Mastrosa, who is from Sydney’s western suburbs, possessed, disseminated and produced child abuse material when writing and marketing her literary work. 

‘I do not accept the submission that the character is not implied to be a child,’ Magistrate Chisholm added.

‘The author wants the character to be a very young child and ensures she can be seen as such.

‘A child’s sexualisation is the central storyline – both the detail and the book’s illustrated cover support that the object of desire is a child.’

Mastrosa first came to the attention of police after she issued a pre-release of the novel to 21 advance readers in March 2025.

A complaint about its content was made to police.

She was arrested weeks later after a search of her home, where officers found 16 hard copies of the offending novel.

The 34-year-old will be sentenced on April 28.