By Ash Flockhart For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 00:31 GMT, 11 March 2019 | Updated: 01:05 GMT, 11 March 2019
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Paedophiles who use child sex dolls could escalate into physically abusing children, a new report has warned.
There is nothing to support the sick theory that paedophiles who use child sex dolls will decrease their urges to carry out sex abuse on children, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported.
Their report said child sex dolls could be used to groom real children for sexual abuse.
Experts said parallels between life-like dolls and real children encourage paedophiles to act out their urges
'It may... desensitise the user from the potential harm that child sexual assault causes, given that such dolls give no emotional