Importation of 'evil' lifelike child sex dolls on the rise in Australia
An "evil" trend of importing lifelike sex dolls into Australia is on the rise, with depraved shoppers ordering anatomically correct silicone “robots” to resemble girls as young as five.
A simple online search finds the child dolls, which include sexual functions, are easy to order for as little as $500.
Customers are able to chose features like hair and eye colour, and type of clothing – even specify what sort of school uniform they would like.
Aside from “soft skin to gain to more real-like feeling”, the mannequins resemble the dimensions of a six-year-old child, measure between 100-140cm and weighing about 20kg.
The Daily Telegraph reports the Department of Immigration and Border Protection has revealed it is currently investigating 11 cases of the doll imports into the country.
Australian Border Force assistant commissioner Wayne Buchhorn said authorities were looking into an “increase in the attempted importation of childlike sex dolls”.
“We currently have 11 childlike sex doll import investigations under way across Australia,” he said.
Fighters Against Child Abuse Australia founder Adam Washbourne told the newspaper the rise in child sex doll sales was “evil”.
Global e-commerce platform AliExpress was quick to shut down many of its sellers who distributed the lifelike child dolls, after being contacted by the Daily Telegraph.
An Australian Border Force spokesperson said the dolls, which can be ordered to represent a child of any age, ethnicity and gender, were classified as “objectionable goods”.
Twenty-three child sex dolls have been seized in Australia since 2013.
More recently, two WA men were allegedly caught trying to import life-like child sex dolls into Australia, in March.
It’s alleged the made-to-order dolls, which feature anatomically correct genitals, were intercepted at a mail-sorting centre on arrival in Australia from Asia.
Staff at the centre then alerted WA Police and the dolls seized.
Anyone caught importing the dolls could face up to 10 years’ jail or a $45,000 fine under the Customs Act.
