Horrified mom ‘cried uncontrollably’ when she found SEX DOLLS on Amazon ‘made using her 8-year-old daughter’s image’
A HORRIFIED mother said she “cried uncontrollably” when she found out her eight-year-old daughter’s likeness had been used to create a child sex doll that was being sold on Amazon.
The Florida mother, who wanted to be identified only as Terri, said she received messages from a friend about the doll that resembled her daughter being sold on Amazon for $559 last month.
The doll was was listed on the website, and other adult sites, as a “high quality sexy dolly live dolls for men.”
The doll appears to be modeled after a photo that Terri posted to Facebook of her daughter wearing a pink shirt and sitting cross-legged with a stuffed animal.
Terri told local station WTVJ that finding the doll has left her horrified.
“I knew it right away. I knew it … the one site, I saw her and zoomed in on her face and hair,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
“I started crying,” she added. “I was just completely in shock and angry.”
The reviews for the product was just as disturbing, with one commenter saying it was a, “good item during these times,” in a May review.
“I can’t sleep sometimes because that’s all I can think about, men who have sex with those dolls, and I can’t get them back. I just want to burn them,” Terri said.
Terri said she contacted Amazon to have the doll removed, and ads for the product were taken down within four days.
“All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “This product has been removed.”
However, Terri told the station that the doll is still available for purchase on other websites, and there is also a video where people explain how to use the doll.
“They should be charged as sex offenders,” Terri said of the people who purchase child sex dolls.
“They should be fined – and these websites need to be shut down.”
Terri enlisted the help of the Child Rescue Coalition, a Boca Raton-based organization that is working to pass a federal law banning the sale and purchasing of child sex dolls.
The story gained the attention of child sex abuse survivor and advocate Elizabeth Smart, who posted a video to Instagram Wednesday urging viewers to sign a petition banning the sale of child sex dolls.
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“This is not OK! Go check out right now, follow the link in their bio and sign the petition today,” Smart said. “This is something easy to do, impactful and immediate. I’m so disgusted right now.”
Smart was kidnapped in 2002 from her Utah home and spent nine months in captivity, where she was repeatedly sexually abused, before she was rescued by police.
Now 32, Smart is an advocate for child sex abuse victims and missing persons.