ABC News has reported on a current issue where child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads are being offered for sale on Temu and Shein in what advocates say may be a bid to get around Australian laws.
Campaigners say the products are advertised in parts as hairdressing mannequins and are often described as “adult toys” despite their child-like features.
The Australian Border Force has reported a “disturbing” rise in attempts to import child-like sex dolls, seizing 47 in the past year alone.
Read the full report here, as outlined in ABC News.
QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Kelly Richards, was included in this report following a recent research project led by Professor Richards and including two QUT undergraduate students, Glen Miles and Alexia Elias, whose reesearch led to a paper titled, “Sexual Offending with Child-Like Sex Dolls in Australia: An Analysis of Court Cases”. This paper was published in Deviant Behaviour Journal.
Abstract: Child-like sex dolls (CLSDs) are an area of escalating concern around the globe. Concerns have been raised that CLSDs will normalize sexual violence against children and contribute to an increase in child sexual abuse. Knowledge about CLSD use is very limited, and much of the existing scholarship on CLSDs focuses primarily on the moral aspects of CLSD use. This research addresses this gap by analyzing court cases involving CLSDs in Australia. It describes key features of these cases to advance understanding about CLSD importation and use. Its findings contribute to knowledge by providing a detailed picture of convicted CLSD perpetrators
Read the full paper here.
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