Man from Australia is on trial for keeping a female doll sëx doll in a ‘concealed’ room at a Western Sydney warehouse.
Michael Brereton, 56, is facing trial in Penrith District Court where he has pleaded not guilty to one count of possessing a child-like sëx doll.
The man from Quakers Hill admits he kept the doll in a storage facility at nearby Kings Park but disputes it resembles a person under 18 years of age.
The court heard the doll was 142cm to 143cm tall (4’8″), of a ‘relatively slim’ build, with narrow hips and other features consistent with the appearance of a child.
Commonwealth prosecutor David Jordan said the doll also had ‘visible breasts’ and a vag”nal cavity and vulva, which were consistent with it being used as a sëx toy.
It was gathered that when the doll was found by police it was wearing a sleeveless slip or shift dress, joggers, and a hair clip featuring the character Anna from the Disney animated film Frozen.
‘It’s the sort of hair clip that a child would wear, I’m going to suggest to you, as opposed to someone 18 or older,’ Mr Jordan told the jury.
The doll was naked and wearing a waist-length wig on Wednesday when it was presented to the six men and six women who will decide whether Brereton is guilty.
To prove the offence, the Crown not only has to establish Brereton was in possession of the doll – which he admits – but two other elements of the indictment.
One of those elements is that the doll ‘resembles a person who is or appears to be, under the 18 years of age’ – which Brereton vehemently denies.
The other is that a ‘reasonable person would consider it likely that the doll is intended to be used by a person to simulate sexual intercourse’.
Brereton’s barrister Zaid Khan did not dispute a reasonable person would make that assumption but said his client did not concede using the doll for such purposes.
‘It is not an element for you to consider if that was in fact what Mr Brereton used the doll for,’ Mr Khan said.
Mr Khan said there was no evidence Brereton used the doll for sëx, asking the jury ‘not to prejudge’ and to ‘keep an open mind’.
