Overview
- Magistrate Bree Chisholm found Lauren Mastrosa guilty of creating, possessing and disseminating child abuse material after reading the full 210-page work.
- The court said repeated childlike language, clothing and behaviour in sexual scenes, alongside a pastel cover with alphabet blocks, would lead a reader to visualise a young child.
- Mastrosa distributed an advance release to 21 readers in March 2025, prompting a police complaint and a home search that uncovered 16 hard copies.
- The defence argued the protagonist was clearly identified as 18 and that the depictions were consensual role-play, but the magistrate ruled those references were insufficient and called the book 'undeniably offensive.'
- Mastrosa, a Christian charity marketing executive who has been stood down from her role, remains on bail and will return to Blacktown Local Court for sentencing on 28 April.