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Lauren Farrow
A former NSW police officer and church youth worker told detectives that turning photographs of underage girls into pornographic images was “an artist thing”, a Sydney court has been told.
Wayne Paul Mason, 42, allegedly kissed a 15-year-old girl during a church sleepover and groomed a 13-year-old for sex while he headed a youth group at a Sydney Baptist church, his trial has heard.
Mason has pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of sexually assaulting four girls between 1996 and 2005 and 14 counts of producing and disseminating child pornography.
In a recording of a police interview shown at his trial on Tuesday, Mason is shown a series of photographs, of which he said some had the “real” faces of underage girls, but “fake” bodies.
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