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La Banda, Argentina: mother tells police a former classmate put her daughter's photos onto naked bodies with AI and spread them on WhatsApp, 8 Oct 2026

In La Banda, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, a woman filed a police complaint on the evening of 8 October 2026 stating that a 15-year-old adolescent, a former classmate of her 15-year-old daughter, had taken photographs of the girl and modified them with artificial-intelligence tools, placing naked bodies on them, and that the images had then been published and spread in WhatsApp groups. Officers of the women's and family community police station and the departmental unit intervened, and the prosecutor ordered the material attached and the file raised to the prosecutor's office for investigation. The account rests on the police report as relayed by the local newspaper Diario Panorama; the tool is not named, and both the girl and the accused are minors.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
8 Oct 2026
Reported
9 October 2026
Event location
Argentina
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 alleged · 1 source
2 claims: 2 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Artificial-intelligence tools, not named, which according to the police report were used to modify photographs of a 15-year-old girl by placing naked bodies on them

What Happened

The complaint. According to the police report relayed by Diario Panorama, a woman filed a complaint on the evening of 8 October 2026 in La Banda, Santiago del Estero province, stating that a 15-year-old adolescent, a former classmate of her daughter at the same school, had taken photographs of the girl, also a minor, and modified them with artificial-intelligence tools, placing naked bodies on them. The images were then allegedly published and spread in WhatsApp groups, which prompted police and judicial intervention.

Response. Officers of the Comisaría Comunitaria N° 12 de la Mujer y la Familia and of the Departamental N° 5 intervened. The prosecutor ordered the material provided with the complaint to be attached and the proceedings raised to the Fiscalía, where the investigation continues.

What is not established. The account rests on the mother's complaint as recorded by the police and relayed by one local newspaper; the tool is not named, the number of images and the extent of their circulation are not stated, and no statement from the accused or his family is reported. Diario Panorama headlines the case as bullying at a school; the record describes the police complaint.

Reported harm

According to her mother's police complaint, a 15-year-old girl's photographs were modified with AI to place naked bodies on them and the images were published and spread in WhatsApp groups; police and the prosecutor opened proceedings.

How Harm Occurred

A 15-year-old is accused of modifying a former classmate's photographs with AI to place naked bodies on them and spreading the images in WhatsApp groups; the depiction and its circulation are the subject of a police complaint by the girl's mother.

Outcome

Ongoing

The complaint was filed on 8 October 2026 at about 20:00 in La Banda. Officers of the Comisaría Comunitaria N° 12 de la Mujer y la Familia and of the Departamental N° 5 intervened. The prosecutor ordered the material provided to be attached and the proceedings raised to the Fiscalía, where the investigation continues. No charge, measure against the accused or ruling is reported.

What remains unknown

  • How the images were made and with which tool; the account is the complainant's as recorded by police and no examination is reported.
  • How many images were made and how widely they spread in WhatsApp groups.
  • Any statement from the accused adolescent or his family, and any measure taken against him; none is reported.
  • Whether other outlets or official channels have reported the case; only Diario Panorama was found.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The police report, as relayed by Diario Panorama, states that the accused took photographs of the girl and modified them with artificial-intelligence tools, placing naked bodies on them, and that the images were then published and spread in WhatsApp groups. The AI-modified images are the harm itself: they depict the girl (depicted_or_impersonated) and their circulation is the conduct complained of. The account is the complainant's as recorded by police, the tool is not named and no examination has confirmed how the images were made, so the status is reported and not supported.

2 claims: 2 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported A woman filed a police complaint in La Banda stating that a 15-year-old adolescent, a former classmate of her daughter, had taken photographs of the girl and modified them with artificial-intelligence tools, placing naked bodies on them, and that the images were then published and spread in WhatsApp groups.

Causal attribution. Single origin: the mother's complaint as recorded in the police report and relayed by Diario Panorama; conditional wording (habría) preserved.

  • diariopanorama.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    luego de que una mujer denunciara que un adolescente de 15 años habría utilizado inteligencia artificial para editar fotografías de su hija, también menor de edad
  • diariopanorama.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    habría tomado fotografías de la menor y las habría modificado mediante herramientas de inteligencia artificial, colocándole cuerpos desnudos
  • diariopanorama.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    Posteriormente, esas imágenes habrían sido publicadas y difundidas en grupos de WhatsApp, situación que motivó la intervención policial y judicial
Reported The complaint was filed on 8 October 2026 at about 20:00 by the mother of a 15-year-old girl, officers of the women's and family community police station and the departmental unit intervened, and the prosecutor ordered the material attached and the proceedings raised to the Fiscalía.

Causal attribution. Single origin: the police report as relayed by Diario Panorama; the date 8 October 2026 follows from "ayer" in an article published 9 October 2026.

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Spanish body read and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; no human translator or reviewer read the text. Diario Panorama (Santiago del Estero daily) report published 9 October 2026 (HTML datePublished 2026-10-09T09:56:38-03:00) relaying the police report ("según consta en el parte policial"); HTTP 200, fetched directly. Applies to s1.

Event countries: Argentina. Affected-person countries: Argentina. Court countries: Unknown.

The complaint was filed in La Banda, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, where the girl and the accused attended the same school and where police intervened (Diario Panorama); the file was raised to the local Fiscalía (prosecutor's office) and no court proceeding is reported.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-10: Published as a core case on a single local newspaper report of 9 October 2026 relaying a police complaint of 8 October 2026: a mother in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, reported that a 15-year-old former classmate modified her 15-year-old daughter's photographs with AI to place naked bodies on them and spread them in WhatsApp groups; police intervened and the prosecutor raised the file for investigation. All claims are attributed to the complaint as recorded by police, both minors and the complainant are unnamed, the school and neighbourhood named in the source are omitted, and no authority has confirmed how the images were made.

People described

A 15-year-old girl in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, whose photographs were, according to her mother's police complaint, modified with AI to place naked bodies on them and spread in WhatsApp groups; not named

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One depicted girl: the complaint concerns the complainant's 15-year-old daughter (Diario Panorama). The accused used the tool against another person, so participant_users_affected_min is 0. Recipients in the WhatsApp groups are not counted.

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

Tags

#ai_nude_images#school#whatsapp#argentina#sexual_image_abuse

Cite this case

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

APA

NOPE. (2026). La Banda, Argentina: mother tells police a former classmate put her daughter's photos onto naked bodies with AI and spread them on WhatsApp, 8 Oct 2026. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-la-banda-santiago-del-estero-ai-nude-images-of-schoolgirl-by-former-classmate-police-complaint

BibTeX

@misc{2026_la_banda_santiago_del_estero_ai_nude_images_of_schoolgirl_by_former_classmate_police_complaint,
  title = {La Banda, Argentina: mother tells police a former classmate put her daughter's photos onto naked bodies with AI and spread them on WhatsApp, 8 Oct 2026},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-la-banda-santiago-del-estero-ai-nude-images-of-schoolgirl-by-former-classmate-police-complaint}
}

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