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New Hampshire police allege AI sexual-image abuse and stalking

New Hampshire police allege that a man stalked a person and used AI tools to create and share sexual images of that person without consent. Charges were brought and the allegations had not been tried at review. The people involved are unnamed here.

AI system
Unidentified image and video tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
7 November 2025
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Relationships · Justice
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account
3 claims: 3 reported. 5 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: AI image and video generation tools (not identified by police)

What Happened

New Hampshire police allege that a man stalked a person and used AI tools to create and share sexual images of that person without consent. Charges were brought and the allegations had not been tried at review. The people involved are unnamed here.

Reported harm

Police allege the victim was stalked for about a year and that AI-made sexual videos and photographs of them were shared without consent.

Outcome

Unknown

New Hampshire police allege that a man stalked a person and used AI tools to create and share sexual images of that person without consent. Charges were brought and the allegations had not been tried at review. The people involved are unnamed here.

What remains unknown

  • The AI tools used are not identified.
  • The victim is not identified; their age and relationship to the accused are not reported.
  • Police described stalking for about or over a year before reporting in November 2025. Exact start and end dates of the conduct are not stated; the late-October arrest is a procedural date.
  • [locality withheld] Daily Sun reports, including one that search results describe as covering grand-jury indictments in January 2026, could not be read from this workspace (HTTP 451 for EEA requests); the case status after November 2025 is unverified.
  • The earlier version of this record dated the events to 2024 and cited a bare publisher domain; those details are superseded.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. [locality withheld] police, as reported by WGME and WMUR on 7 November 2025, say the accused used AI tools to edit videos and photographs so that they showed the victim in sexual acts that never happened. The tools are not identified and no court finding was reviewed.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported New Hampshire police allege that a man stalked a person for about a year, used AI to create sexual images depicting them and shared the images without consent.

Causal attribution. Police allegations relayed by WGME and WMUR/MSN from the same investigating agency; no independent witness account, underlying court record or conviction was inspected.

  • wgme.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Paragraphs 2-4: stalked the victim for over a year; used AI tools to create deepfake videos of the victim engaging in sexual acts that never occurred; shared the videos without consent.
  • msn.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Paragraphs 1-3: [locality withheld] man; stalking for about a year; AI tools used to edit videos and photos showing the victim in sexual acts that never happened; shared without permission.
Reported Police reported an arrest in late October 2025 on charges of non-consensual sexual-image dissemination, fraudulent use of deepfakes, stalking and receiving stolen property.

Causal attribution. Procedural facts reported from police statements.

  • wgme.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Paragraphs 2 and 5: arrested 'last Friday' (report dated 7 November 2025); charged with non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, fraudulent use of deepfakes, stalking, and receiving stolen property.
  • msn.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Paragraphs 4 and 6: arrested in late October on three counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, fraudulent use of fake photos and videos, stalking and receiving stolen property; joint effort by [locality withheld] police, the [locality withheld] Sheriff's Office and state police.
Reported Police said he was held without bail pending a probable-cause hearing as of 7 November 2025.

Causal attribution. Procedural fact reported from police statements.

Sources

2 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in English on 2026-09-15; datePublished 2025-11-07. Applies to s1.

WMUR (Hearst) report read on 2026-09-15 through the MSN syndicated copy (published 2025-11-07T17:24Z) because wmur.com answers HTTP 451 to requests from the European Economic Area. Applies to s2.

HTTP 451 (region block) on 2026-09-15; the same report was read via the MSN copy above. Applies to s3.

HTTP 451/429 on 2026-09-15 (EEA region block); not read. Applies to s4.

HTTP 451/429 on 2026-09-15 (EEA region block); not read. Search-engine snippets describe January 2026 indictments; unverified. Applies to s5.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: United States.

Event and affected-person locations are not stated in the inspected reports. They identify the accused as from [locality withheld], New Hampshire, and the investigating agencies as [locality withheld] police, the [locality withheld] Sheriff’s Office and state police. US proceedings are supported by the charges, New Hampshire custody and pending probable-cause hearing reported in November 2025; those facts do not establish the victim’s location.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-15: Restored under its original ID after source, duplicate and sensitivity review. Allegations are attributed to [locality withheld] police as reported by WGME and WMUR; the accused is not named in this record and the victim is not identified.

People described

One person reportedly stalked and depicted without consent in New Hampshire.

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

Police describe one stalking victim (WGME; WMUR). The accused is not counted as a harmed person.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#deepfakes#stalking#non-consensual-imagery#new-hampshire#criminal-charges

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). New Hampshire police allege AI sexual-image abuse and stalking. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2024-new-hampshire-alleged-ai-deepfake-stalking

BibTeX

@misc{2024_new_hampshire_alleged_ai_deepfake_stalking,
  title = {New Hampshire police allege AI sexual-image abuse and stalking},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2024-new-hampshire-alleged-ai-deepfake-stalking}
}

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