Man Charged After Buying Lewd Child Doll He Claims Is Replacing His Dead Son

As CTV News reported, he ordered a child sex doll named "Carol" from a Japanese website back in 2013, but it was seized by the Canada Border Services Agency before it could reach him. He paid the equivalent of $742, but said he was willing to pay three times as much.

Harrisson was then charged with possession of child pornography, mailing obscene matter, and two violations of the federal Customs Act of smuggling and possession of prohibited goods.

Aside from issues of whether charging him is an appropriate limit to free expression, there's also the question of whether the doll constitutes child pornography when no actual child is involved in the situation.

And Harrisson's explanation for why he bought it doesn't make the case any easier to understand.

Specifically, he said he was seeking the kind of companionship he had been robbed of when his son died at six months old.

When they asked why Harrisson did get a dog if he was lonely and wanted a companion, he chuckled and said, "A dog is not representative of a human. It's not human in appearance."

To this, he replied that a mannequin wasn't lifelike enough for his purposes and he didn't go with an infant because he wanted it to look like his son would've in 2013, had he survived.

For one thing, Harrisson's son had died well over 20 years ago and would have been 25 years old in 2013.

For another thing, the doll was modeled after a girl. Regardless of how Harrisson's son would have developed, it's highly unlikely that he would have resembled a prepubescent girl at 25.

Although the doll was pictured kneeling in a sexual position when Harrisson first saw it, he said this did not factor into his decision.

As he put it, "I did not order a sex doll of a childlike nature. The purpose I intended it for was to replace my deceased son, period."

He said that it hadn't occurred to him to search for "male sex dolls," but other than an apparent facial resemblance, there wasn't much explanation as to what led him towards the dolls that forensic psychologist Peter Collins described as, "the size of a prepubescent child without sexually mature characteristics."

h/t: CTV News