Source: kentuckylantern.com 10/23/26
A Union County judge has rejected a man’s constitutional challenge of Kentucky’s ban on child sex dolls.
Kenneth Moore, 50, was charged in August 2025, according to court records, with a total of 16 counts of possession or viewing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, promoting a sexual performance by a minor less than 16 years of age and one count of trafficking a child sex doll — all felonies.
In February, he asked the Union Circuit Court to declare House Bill 207, the ban passed by the General Assembly in 2024, unconstitutional and dismiss the charges against him related to that law. He argued at that time that his child sex doll was “homemade, essentially papier-mached out of different materials with the head of some sort of doll attached” and that “at no point was any child abused.”
According to Judge Daniel M. Heady’s October order rejecting Moore’s claims, items examined in Moore’s case included:
Two or more purported child sex dolls, torsos, or parts thereof, as said evidence appears to be a combination of doll heads and homemade sex dolls or body parts, including at least one head or doll with extremely childlike in appearance head and facial features.
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“Moore argues that a possession of a child sex doll is a protected act of expression and entitled to First Amendment protections,” Heady’s ruling said. “This Court disagrees as possession of child sex dolls are not a form of protected speech or expression. Defendant acknowledges that…