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Pontevedra, Spain: court upholds sentences on three 15-year-olds who used an AI undressing app to make fake nude images of two classmates from their Instagram photos and showed them to other pupils

Diario de Pontevedra and Faro de Vigo reported on 1 October 2026 that the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra had upheld a juvenile-court judgment against three boys who, aged 15 in January 2024, used an AI undressing app to turn photos two female classmates had posted on Instagram into fake nude images. According to the ruling as reported, the images were made from 15 January 2024 and shown to other pupils in class and on a school trip on 1 February 2024, and they circulated among pupils for more than fifteen days. The Juzgado de Menores found the three responsible for two offences against moral integrity and imposed socio-educational tasks on each (two five-month measures according to Diario de Pontevedra, five months according to Faro de Vigo), plus €1,000 compensation to each girl for moral damage. The school had expelled them for 15, 21 and 30 days. The appeal ruling is final.

AI system
Undress Up app (reported)
Occurred
15 Jan 2024 to 1 Feb 2024
Reported
1 October 2026
Event location
Spain
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Education · Privacy · Justice
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 2 sources, 1 underlying account
5 claims: 5 reported. 5 open questions
People reported harmed
2 people

AI system as recorded: An AI undressing app that the ruling, as quoted by Diario de Pontevedra, calls Undress Up (Faro de Vigo: Undress App), used to generate fake nude images from photos taken from Instagram

What Happened

What the ruling found, as reported. Diario de Pontevedra quotes the Audiencia Provincial's ruling, and Faro de Vigo summarises it. The three boys were born in 2008 and were in the fourth year of ESO at a school in Pontevedra. Around 20:30 on 15 January 2024, after leaving an English academy, they registered with an AI undressing app (named Undress Up in the ruling as quoted by Diario de Pontevedra, Undress App in Faro de Vigo) using one boy's phone and Gmail account. They used it to make sexual photo montages of two female classmates from images the girls had posted in their Instagram stories. The next day one of the boys showed the AI-generated images to two classmates during class. On or before 1 February 2024, including during a school trip that day, another showed them to four friends, and another of the boys made two further montages of one of the girls in front of classmates, using photos from a WhatsApp group.

Consequences. The court found the images objectively capable of seriously undermining the girls' dignity and noted that they circulated among pupils for more than fifteen days. The school expelled the three boys for 15, 21 and 30 days. On the prosecutor's application, the Juzgado de Menores found them responsible for two offences against moral integrity. It imposed socio-educational tasks on each (two five-month measures according to Diario de Pontevedra, five months according to Faro de Vigo), aimed at understanding the consequences for others, appropriate use of social networks and AI, and respect for others' image and privacy, and ordered €1,000 compensation to each girl for moral damage. One boy appealed, alleging a breach of the presumption of innocence, no intent to humiliate and a disproportionate measure. The Audiencia rejected the appeal, finding his participation sufficiently proven by the statements of the others involved and of several witnesses, and its ruling is final.

Limits. The ruling itself was not read. Both reports describe it, and the app's name differs between them. The girls' own accounts are not reported. One sentence in Diario de Pontevedra mentions three young people harmed, but every other passage in both reports concerns two girls, and the compensation is ordered for two victims.

Reported harm

Two female classmates were depicted in AI-generated fake nude images that three boys made from their Instagram photos and showed to other pupils, the images circulating for more than fifteen days; a court ordered €1,000 compensation to each for moral damage (ruling as reported by Diario de Pontevedra and Faro de Vigo).

Outcome

Resolved

The Juzgado de Menores de Pontevedra, at the prosecutor's request, found the three boys responsible for two offences against moral integrity and imposed socio-educational tasks on each (two five-month measures according to Diario de Pontevedra, five months according to Faro de Vigo), plus €1,000 compensation to each girl for moral damage (jointly with their parents, per Faro de Vigo). The Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra (Section Four) rejected one boy's appeal and confirmed the judgment in full; the ruling is final. The school had earlier expelled the three for 15, 21 and 30 days.

What remains unknown

  • The exact name of the app (Undress Up in one report, Undress App in the other) and who operates it.
  • How the girls learned of the images and what effects they themselves describe.
  • Whether the images spread beyond the pupils named in the ruling.
  • The date of the first-instance judgment.
  • Whether each boy received one or two five-month socio-educational measures (the reports differ).

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Both reports say the ruling found that the boys used an AI app to turn the girls' Instagram photos into fake nude images, and Diario de Pontevedra quotes the ruling as saying they used artificial intelligence. The images depicted the girls (depicted_or_impersonated). The ruling was not read directly, and the app's name differs between the two reports.

5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported According to the ruling as reported, on 15 January 2024 three boys, then 15, registered with an AI undressing app and used it to make sexual photo montages of two female classmates from photos the girls had posted on Instagram.

Causal attribution. Facts found by the court, as reported by two outlets; the ruling was not read and the app name differs between the reports.

  • diariodepontevedra.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'Sobre las 20.30 horas del día 15 de enero de 2024, en la localidad de Pontevedra'; 'se registraron en la aplicación Undress Up, utilizando para ello el móvil y una cuenta de Gmail de uno de ellos, e hicieron montajes de fotos sexuales de dichas menores, empleando la Inteligencia Artificial'; 'fueron capturadas de las historias que ellas mismas subían a Instagram'
  • farodevigo.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'utilizaron la aplicación Undress App para manipular fotografías que las jóvenes habían publicado en Instagram'
Reported The boys showed the AI-generated images to other pupils, in class and during a school trip on 1 February 2024, and the images circulated among pupils for more than fifteen days.

Causal attribution. Facts found by the court, as reported.

  • diariodepontevedra.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'Al día siguiente, uno de ellos, estando en clase, exhibió las imágenes generadas con IA a otros dos compañeros.'; 'otro de los ahora condenados exhibió las imágenes de las dos niñas alteradas con IA a otros cuatro amigos.'
  • farodevigo.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'destaca que las imágenes circularon durante más de quince días entre alumnos del colegio.'
Reported The Juzgado de Menores found the three responsible for two offences against moral integrity, imposed socio-educational tasks on each (reported as two five-month measures by Diario de Pontevedra and as five months by Faro de Vigo) and ordered €1,000 compensation to each of the two girls for moral damage.

Causal attribution. Court outcome as reported; the judgment was not read.

  • farodevigo.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'El Juzgado de Menores declaró a los tres autores de dos delitos contra la integridad moral y les impuso cinco meses de tareas socioeducativas.'; 'deberán indemnizar con 1.000 euros a cada una de las dos víctimas por el daño moral causado.'
  • diariodepontevedra.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'les impuso dos penas de cinco meses de tareas socioeducativas a cada uno de ellos'; 'deberán indemnizar con 1.000 euros a cada una de las víctimas por los daños morales causados'
Reported The Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra rejected one boy's appeal and confirmed the judgment in full, and the ruling is final.

Causal attribution. Court outcome as reported.

  • farodevigo.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'La Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra ha confirmado íntegramente la condena impuesta a tres menores'; 'es firme, por lo que contra ella no cabe recurso.'
  • diariodepontevedra.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'la sentencia que acaba de suscribir (y otorgarle firmeza) la Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra'
Reported The school expelled the three boys for 15, 21 and 30 days.

Causal attribution. As reported from the ruling.

  • diariodepontevedra.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'los tres menores fueron objeto de un procedimiento corrector en el centro escolar, que les impuso la sanción de expulsión de 15, 21 y 30 días, en cada caso.'

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 Spanish on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Researcher translation. Quotes the Audiencia Provincial ruling at length. Applies to s1.

Read in Spanish on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200; dated 1 Oct 2026 19:51). Researcher translation. Summarises the same ruling, so it is grouped with s1 as one chain resting on one court document. Applies to s2.

Event countries: Spain. Affected-person countries: Spain. Court countries: Spain.

The ruling, as reported, places the creation and showing of the images in the town of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) and concerns pupils of a school there. The Juzgado de Menores and the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra are Spanish courts.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-04: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: according to two regional reports describing a final court ruling, an AI undressing app was used to depict two schoolgirls in fake nude images that were shown to other pupils. All parties are minors and none is identified; no image content is described beyond what is needed.

People described

Two female secondary-school pupils in Pontevedra, classmates of the three boys (not identified)

People reported harmed in this case

2 people

0 AI participants · 2 other people harmed

Two girls, the classmates whose photos were turned into fake nude images. The judgment orders compensation to each of the two victims, and both reports describe two girls. The pupils who were shown the images are not counted. Exact 2.

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

Tags

#deepfakes#ai-generated-imagery#ncii#school#nudify-app#spain#pontevedra#court-ruling#spanish-language

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APA

NOPE. (2026). Pontevedra, Spain: court upholds sentences on three 15-year-olds who used an AI undressing app to make fake nude images of two classmates from their Instagram photos and showed them to other pupils. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2024-pontevedra-three-minors-ai-undress-app-fake-nudes-of-two-classmates-ruling-upheld

BibTeX

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  title = {Pontevedra, Spain: court upholds sentences on three 15-year-olds who used an AI undressing app to make fake nude images of two classmates from their Instagram photos and showed them to other pupils},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
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