{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-28T07:20:00.349Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"exam","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":3,"languages":4,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":3,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-zhejiang-toddler-ai-asthma-diagnosis-mother-declined-chest-xray-pneumonia-hospitalised","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'今年8月，浙江一名3岁男童阳阳（化名）的案例令人警醒。阳阳有哮喘病史，妈妈在AI上输入“过敏、哮喘、咳嗽、夜间咳喘”等关键词，AI快速给出“支气管哮喘急性发作”的诊断'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In August 2026 the mother of a three-year-old boy with a history of asthma in Zhejiang entered the keywords allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing into an AI tool, which quickly returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack (newspaper account).","causal_attribution":"Guangming Daily's account; the tool is not identified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'阳阳妈妈据此拒绝医生建议的胸部X线平片检查，坚持只开雾化药回家'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On the basis of that AI diagnosis the mother declined the chest X-ray examination the doctor recommended and insisted on taking home only nebuliser medication.","causal_attribution":"The feature attributes the refusal to the AI diagnosis (据此); this is the newspaper's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'两天后孩子病情加重、呼吸急促，连夜返院检查发现双肺大面积炎症病灶，确诊为偏肺病毒肺炎叠加细菌感染，紧急住院'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Two days later the child's condition worsened with rapid breathing; on an overnight return to the hospital, examination found extensive inflammatory lesions in both lungs, and he was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus pneumonia with a superimposed bacterial infection and admitted as an emergency.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as described in the newspaper feature; it does not say whether pneumonia was present at the first visit."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'“他们要是早点听我的，病情也不至于这么严重。”浙江省中医院儿科主任李岚无奈地说'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The head of paediatrics at Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier.","causal_attribution":"The clinician's assessment that earlier compliance would have limited the severity; the newspaper reports it without an independent review of the records."}],"effects":[{"label":"Three-year-old admitted as an emergency with pneumonia two days after his mother, relying on an AI tool's acute-asthma diagnosis, declined a recommended chest X-ray (newspaper account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-10-08/detail-iniumumr7827547.d.html","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Chinese body read in full on 2026-10-09 and translated by the research agent (an AI). The Sina Finance page republishes a Bingtuan Daily item (兵团日报, dated 10.08 01:37) credited at the end to Guangming Daily (据《光明日报》); the case passage is told in the newspaper's voice and closes with a quotation from the hospital's head of paediatrics; the feature does not say where its account came from. Re-read on 2026-10-11.","independence_group":"guangming-daily-feature"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool the mother used.","Whether the tool's acute-asthma diagnosis was wrong in itself or only incomplete; the feature describes the later pneumonia diagnosis, not the asthma assessment.","Whether pneumonia was present or detectable at the first visit, when the chest X-ray was declined.","The exact dates in August 2026 of the first visit and the readmission.","The child's course after the emergency admission.","The family's own account, and where the newspaper obtained its account of the case; only the feature's account, closed with the paediatrics head's quotation, is available."],"geography":{"basis":"The feature places the case in Zhejiang (浙江一名3岁男童) and the treating clinician at Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, so the event and the affected child are in China. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete account in a national newspaper feature of a parent relying on an AI tool's symptom diagnosis for a young child, declining a recommended chest X-ray, and the child being admitted as an emergency two days later with pneumonia. Every assertion is attributed to the newspaper's account, and the view that the illness would have been less severe had the family listened earlier is attributed to the paediatrics head. The tool is unnamed. The child's pseudonym from the article appears only inside the verbatim Chinese passages of claims c1 and c2 and is not used in the narrative. The worsening and emergency admission after the declined X-ray, rather than the AI's asthma assessment, is recorded as the harm.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The feature states what the AI tool produced: after the mother entered the keywords allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing, it quickly returned the diagnosis acute bronchial asthma attack. It connects that output to the harm in the next sentences: on that basis the mother declined the chest X-ray the doctor recommended and took home only nebuliser medication, and two days later the child was found to have extensive bilateral lung inflammation and was admitted as an emergency with metapneumovirus pneumonia and a bacterial infection. The account is Guangming Daily's, closed with a quotation from the hospital's head of paediatrics; the tool is unnamed and the family's own version is not reported, so the involvement is recorded as reported rather than supported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Zhejiang toddler hospitalised with pneumonia after his mother relied on an AI tool's asthma diagnosis and declined a chest X-ray (newspaper account)","summary":"A Guangming Daily feature on AI symptom-checking, republished by Bingtuan Daily on Sina Finance on 8 October 2026, recounts a case from August 2026 in Zhejiang and closes it with a quotation from the head of paediatrics at a provincial hospital, who says the family did not heed the doctor's advice. A three-year-old boy with a history of asthma was brought in; his mother had entered keywords such as allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing into an AI tool, which quickly returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack. On that basis, the account says, she declined the chest X-ray the doctor recommended and insisted on taking home only nebuliser medication. Two days later the child's condition worsened with rapid breathing; on an overnight return to the hospital, examination found extensive inflammatory lesions in both lungs, and he was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus pneumonia with a superimposed bacterial infection and admitted as an emergency. The paediatrics head is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier. The AI tool is not named. The case is told in the newspaper's voice, and the feature does not say where its account came from beyond the paediatrics head's quotation; no statement from the family is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-08-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-08","aiSystem":"An unnamed AI tool into which, by the account in the Guangming Daily feature, the mother entered symptom keywords and which returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack","aiProduct":"Unidentified symptom-analysis tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["medical_deterioration","hospitalization","treatment_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By the newspaper's account, after his mother, relying on an AI tool's acute-asthma diagnosis, declined the chest X-ray a doctor advised, a three-year-old's condition worsened over two days and he was admitted as an emergency with metapneumovirus pneumonia and a bacterial infection; the paediatrics head is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One child is reported harmed. The mother used the AI tool; the harm fell on the child, so he is counted as another person harmed and no direct user is counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-10-08/detail-iniumumr7827547.d.html","primarySourceLabel":"Sina Finance (Bingtuan Daily, credited to Guangming Daily), AI热潮下医患问诊之变与辨, 8 October 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:33.441089+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:43:54.606673+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["health","symptom_checker","children","declined_examination","china"]},{"id":"2026-oldenburg-school-email-accounts-ai-deepfakes-of-children-threats","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der Polizei ist bekannt geworden, dass in den vergangenen Tagen über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der E-Mail-Server Oldenburger Schulen zahlreiche Nachrichten versandt wurden.'; 'Die Nachrichten enthielten unter anderem sogenannte Deepfakes, also manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen.'; 'Darüber hinaus enthielten die versandten Nachrichten zum Teil Gewaltandrohungen sowie Aufforderungen, sich selbst etwas anzutun.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Einige Bilder könnten nach erster Einschätzung der Ermittler/innen kinder- oder jugendpornografische Inhalte darstellen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Nach einer ersten Bewertung könnten einzelne dieser Darstellungen strafrechtlich relevant sein und den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- beziehungsweise jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In the days before 22 September 2026, numerous messages were sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools; they included deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people), some of which the police, on a first assessment, consider could meet the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some contained threats of violence and calls to harm oneself.","causal_attribution":"Police statement (reviewer translation: 'The messages contained, among other things, so-called deepfakes, that is, manipulated depictions of children and young people'). Whether the material is criminal is under investigation."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Wie ein Polizeisprecher sagte, sollen einige der mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- oder jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'; 'Schüler und Eltern hatten sich bei der Polizei gemeldet und die Vorfälle angezeigt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"dpa, reporting a police spokesman's statements, describes the images as created with artificial intelligence; students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents.","causal_attribution":"dpa's report of a police spokesman (reviewer translation: 'Students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents')."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ob und auf welche Weise sich bislang unbekannte Personen unberechtigt Zugang zu diesen Accounts verschafft haben, wird durch die Ermittler geprüft.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Die Ermittlungen zur Urheberschaft und zu den Hintergründen dauern an.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Die Polizei arbeitet eng mit den betroffenen Schulen zusammen. Erste digitale Spuren wurden bereits gesichert und werden derzeit ausgewertet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In their 22 September statement the police said they were investigating whether unknown persons had gained unauthorised access to the student accounts, had secured first digital traces and were working with the affected schools; authorship was then under investigation.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as published and relayed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der Plattform IServ sind in den vergangenen Tagen Nachrichten an Oldenburger Schulen verschickt worden'; 'Das Unternehmen habe keinen Zugriff auf die Nachrichten oder Einsicht in die Schüleraccounts.'; 'Wir gehen aber davon aus, dass der Vorfall nur in Oldenburg stattgefunden hat.'; 'Nach aktuellem Stand sei nicht bekannt, dass Passwörter von Nutzern kompromittiert wurden'; 'keine Hinweise darauf, dass die von den Schulen betriebenen IServ-Instanzen selbst kompromittiert worden seien'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The accounts were on the IServ school platform; an IServ spokesman said the company has no access to the messages or accounts and assumes the incident occurred only in Oldenburg; it said no compromise of user passwords was known and there was no indication that the school-operated IServ instances had been compromised.","causal_attribution":"RND's reporting of the platform and of the company spokesman's statement; RND attributes the account description to the Oldenburg police, but the inspected police release does not name IServ, so the platform identification rests on RND."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'konnte inzwischen ein Tatverdächtiger ermittelt werden.' ... 'Bei dem Tatverdächtigen handelt es sich um einen Jugendlichen. Im Rahmen der bisherigen Ermittlungen räumte dieser die ihm vorgeworfenen Taten ein.' ... 'Das Verfahren wird bei der Schwerpunktstaatsanwaltschaft zur Bekämpfung gewaltdarstellender, pornographischer oder sonst jugendgefährdender Inhalte bei der Staatsanwaltschaft Aurich geführt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 28 September 2026 the police said a suspect had been identified, a juvenile who admitted the offences he is accused of in the investigation so far; the proceedings are conducted by the Aurich public prosecutor's specialised office.","causal_attribution":"Police statement; an admission in the investigation is not a conviction. The release does not say how the images were made."}],"effects":[{"label":"deepfake images of children and young people, some possibly sexual abuse material, were distributed to students through school email accounts together with threats and calls to self-harm","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (police statement, 22 September 2026; German). Quotations are German originals; English renderings are reviewer translations, no human translator.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-09/22/deepfake-bilder-an-oldenburger-schulen-verschickt","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (dpa Niedersachsen via Zeit Online, 22 September 2026; German). Adds a police spokesman's statements; same police chain as s1. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.rnd.de/lokales/niedersachsen/braunschweig/pornografische-deepfakes-ueber-schueleraccounts-verschickt-braunschweiger-softwarefirma-aeussert-CCBUGZ3AXNAFNBSQO7RTFYIBLM.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Live fetch returned 403; read on 2026-09-27 via Internet Archive capture (RND, 23 September 2026; German). Police facts relayed from the same police chain; the IServ spokesman's statement is RND's own reporting. Reviewer translation. Its lede repeats the dpa lede verbatim.","independence_group":"rnd-iserv-statement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.oldenburger-onlinezeitung.de/blaulicht/deepfakes-manipulierte-bilder-schueleraccounts-237639.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Oldenburger Onlinezeitung, 22 September 2026; German). Rewrite of the police statement. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6360432","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Follow-up police press release on presseportal.de, 28 September 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used: the police say a juvenile suspect admitted the alleged offences but do not describe how the images were made.","Whether the student accounts were compromised or used by their holders.","Whether the depicted children and young people are real, identifiable students at the schools, and how many were depicted.","How many schools (more than one per the police statement), messages and recipients were involved (police: 'zahlreiche Nachrichten').","Exact dates of sending ('in den vergangenen Tagen' before 22 September 2026).","Any effects on the depicted children or recipients beyond the reports to police, and any school measures or charges."],"geography":{"basis":"The messages were sent through accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools and the Oldenburg-Stadt police are investigating (police statement). The depicted children's location is not stated, so affected_person_countries rests on the student recipients at Oldenburg schools. No court proceedings are reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["DE"],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core depicted_or_impersonated case: the police report deepfakes of children and young people (which dpa, reporting a police spokesman, describes as AI-made), some possibly sexual abuse material, sent through school email accounts together with threats and self-harm calls, reported by students and parents. One police chain; RND adds the platform provider's statement. No child or school is identified. Updated on 2026-10-20 with the police's 28 September follow-up: a juvenile suspect was identified and admitted the alleged offences; the suspect is not identified in the record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The police statement calls the images deepfakes, 'manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen'; dpa's report of a police spokesman's statements describes them as images created with artificial intelligence ('mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder'); the written police statement does not mention AI. No tool is identified and no forensic finding is published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Oldenburg police investigate deepfakes of children sent with threats via school email accounts, AI-made per dpa; police say a juvenile admitted the alleged acts","summary":"The Oldenburg-Stadt police inspectorate said on 22 September 2026 that in the preceding days numerous messages had been sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools. The messages contained, among other things, deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people); on an initial assessment some of these could constitute the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some messages contained threats of violence and calls for recipients to harm themselves. According to dpa, students and parents reported the incidents to the police, and dpa, reporting a police spokesman, describes the images as made with artificial intelligence (the written police statement calls them deepfakes, manipulated depictions, without naming AI). Investigators are examining whether unknown persons gained unauthorised access to the accounts; first digital traces were secured and the police are working with the affected schools. RND reports that the accounts were on the IServ school platform, whose provider said it had no access to the messages and believed the incident was limited to Oldenburg. The exact number of schools (the police refer to 'the affected schools', plural), messages, depicted children and recipients, are not reported. On 28 September 2026 the police said a suspect had been identified: a juvenile who, in the investigation so far, admitted the offences he is accused of. The proceedings are conducted by the Aurich public prosecutor's specialised office for violent, pornographic or otherwise youth-endangering content, and the police give no further details about the suspect to protect him.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-22","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image-manipulation tool used to produce deepfake images of children and young people; the tool and its operator are not reported. The messages were sent through student accounts on the IServ school platform (RND).","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Oldenburg police, AI-made deepfakes of children and young people, some possibly constituting child or youth sexual abuse material, were sent to students through school email accounts together with threats of violence and calls to self-harm; students and parents reported the incidents (police statement; dpa).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The police speak of 'zahlreiche Nachrichten' (numerous messages) and depictions of children and young people but give no number of depicted children, recipients or schools; a count of messages is not a count of people. Unquantified with zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"DE-NI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","primarySourceLabel":"Polizeiinspektion Oldenburg-Stadt (POL-OL) on Presseportal, 22 September 2026: Manipulierte Bilder über Schüleraccounts versandt - Polizei ermittelt","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:47.296658+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:20:42.632602+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","csam","school","minors","germany","niedersachsen","school-email","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-illinois-teacher-alleged-ai-child-image-abuse","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'was taken into custody Friday on eight counts of Child Pornography following a lengthy investigation that started in June, officials said.'; 'are class X felonies, while six counts are Class 1 felonies.'; 'turned himself over to police on Friday, authorities said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'In total, eight counts of child sex abuse material have been filed against'; 'felony counts of child pornography following his arrest Friday'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In July 2026 Illinois police and prosecutors charged a middle-school teacher with eight felony counts of child pornography.","causal_attribution":"The joint police and prosecutor release (Scanner) and the court documents Patch obtained both give eight felony counts. The charges are allegations awaiting trial."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Cyber Lab revealed numerous images of students that had been altered using AI to create explicit images, officials said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'examination revealed “numerous images of students that had been altered using artificial intelligence to create explicit images,” according to a joint news release from the state’s attorney and'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Officials said he took photos and videos of current and former students and then used generative AI to alter them into pornographic images.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'created “illicit” images by using an AI program to digitally place the heads of students on the bodies of other people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"Police and prosecutors say a forensic examination of the teacher's phone by the prosecutor's cyber lab found numerous images of students that had been altered with AI into explicit images; the prosecutor's office told the Chicago Tribune that an AI program was used to place students' heads on other people's bodies.","causal_attribution":"Police and prosecutor statements relayed by four outlets from one release chain, so recorded as reported. These are charging statements, not court findings; the software is not named."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Prosecutors said the search of his phone showed multiple students in the school and the images were later altered using AI to make the children, who are ages 12-14, appear nude. The AI app used was found on his phone.'; 'There were photos recovered of former juvenile students, who are now adults, who had also been victims, prosecutors said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'\"AI was used to create those images.'; 'Prosecutors said the investigation found digitally altered photographs of his current students taken between April and June, as well as photographs they believe are of former students dating back to the 2018-2019 school year.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'were under the age of 13 years old, according to court documents provided to Patch.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"At the detention hearing prosecutors said the teacher's phone showed photographs of students taken at school that were later altered with AI to make children aged 12 to 14 appear nude, that the AI app used was found on the phone, and that photographs of former students, now adults, were also recovered; court documents allege that some photos showed girls under 13. The State's Attorney told ABC7 that AI was used to create the images.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' statements in court and to the press, reported by two outlets, and the charging documents as described by Patch; one prosecution origin, so reported. The judge's detention ruling does not decide the allegations."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'several students reported concerns to school leaders regarding inappropriate photos/videos allegedly taken by'; 'that afternoon in his classroom.'; 'was immediately removed from the classroom and placed on administrative leave that day,\" the statement continued.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'the district became aware of the allegations of videotaping on June 3, the second-to-last day of classes, and immediately removed'; 'The district launched an internal investigation and called police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, she said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'notified police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services after several students came forward'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The school district says several students reported concerns on 3 June 2026, the second-to-last day of the school year, about photos or videos the teacher allegedly took in his classroom that afternoon; he was removed from the classroom and placed on administrative leave that day, and the district contacted police and the state child-welfare agency.","causal_attribution":"The district's statement and superintendent's letters as relayed by three outlets (one origin)."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A detention hearing was held on Monday afternoon and'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'judge on Monday ordered'; 'detained while awaiting trial, saying there was no other way to prevent him from continuing similar behavior.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'remain detained as court proceedings move forward, according to online court records.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A judge ordered the teacher detained pending trial at a hearing on 6 July 2026.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the hearing (Scanner, ABC7) and from the online court record (Patch): two origins."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was fired Tuesday after the school board approved his dismissal'; 'District officials said the allegations violated the trust placed in educators and warranted immediate termination.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"The school board dismissed the teacher on 14 July 2026, saying the allegations violated the trust placed in educators.","causal_attribution":"Patch relaying the Daily Herald's report of the board vote; the Daily Herald article itself was not read."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Authorities said they will continue working closely with the families and students impacted by these crimes to keep them informed about charges and connect them with support services.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The district is making a number of resources available to students.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'students that were taken on school grounds. Additional victims may be identified.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Authorities say they are working with affected families and students to connect them with support services, and the district says it is making resources available to students and that additional victims may be identified.","causal_attribution":"Official and district statements; no account from a student or family is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"photographs of middle-school students were allegedly altered with an AI app into nude or sexually explicit images by their teacher (prosecutors' account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/07/03/libertyville-middle-school-teacher-charged-with-videotaping-students-using-ai-to-create-explicit-images/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-22 (Lake & McHenry County Scanner, 3 July 2026). Relays the joint police and State's Attorney news release and the district superintendent's letter to parents.","independence_group":"police-prosecutor-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/07/06/childrens-worst-nightmare-prosecutors-say-libertyville-teacher-recorded-numerous-students-used-ai-to-create-child-sex-abuse/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-22 (Lake & McHenry County Scanner, 6 July 2026). Reports the prosecutors' statements and the judge's ruling at the detention hearing on 6 July 2026, and a further district letter.","independence_group":"detention-hearing-reporting"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://abc7chicago.com/19459693/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-22 (ABC7 Chicago, 6 July 2026), cited by its numeric short address, which redirects to the article. Reports the detention ruling, prosecutors' statements in court and an interview with the State's Attorney.","independence_group":"detention-hearing-reporting"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://patch.com/illinois/grayslake/teacher-accused-secretly-recording-students-creating-ai-generated-explicit-images","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-22 (Patch, posted 6 July 2026, updated 9 July 2026). Adds court documents provided to Patch and online court records (detention order, next hearing); relays the police account of the AI finding.","independence_group":"court-records-reporting"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.dailyherald.com/20260703/crime/authorities-libertyville-middle-school-teacher-created-ai-child-sex-abuse-materials/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-22 from an Internet Archive capture (gzip-encoded, decoded locally); the live site answered with a bot-check page. Daily Herald, 3 July 2026: quotes the joint release and the superintendent's letter.","independence_group":"police-prosecutor-release"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/libertyville-middle-school-teacher-charged-ai-students-child-pornography/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-22 from an Internet Archive capture (gzip-encoded, decoded locally); the live site answered HTTP 406. CBS News Chicago, 3 July 2026: officials' description and the district statement.","independence_group":"police-prosecutor-release"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/03/libertyville-teacher-child-porn-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-US","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-22 from an Internet Archive capture (gzip-encoded, decoded locally); the live site answered HTTP 403. Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2026: the State's Attorney's Office description of the AI method and the superintendent's letter.","independence_group":"police-prosecutor-release"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://patch.com/illinois/libertyville/district-70-fires-teacher-accused-possessing-child-sex-abuse-material","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-22 (Patch, 16 July 2026). Relays the Daily Herald's report of the school board's dismissal vote on Tuesday 14 July 2026.","independence_group":"school-board-dismissal-reporting"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["How many students appear in the altered images; the reports say numerous images and multiple students without a count of people.","Which AI app was used; prosecutors say it was found on the phone but no report names it.","When the images were altered. Prosecutors say the photographs of current students were taken between April and June 2026 and that photographs believed to show former students date back to the 2018-2019 school year; the alteration dates are not reported.","Whether any altered image was shared beyond the accused's devices.","The outcome of the preliminary hearing (reported as set for 28 July 2026 by one outlet and 30 July 2026 by another), the plea and the case's current status; no report after 16 July 2026 was found.","Whether the students or their families describe further effects; no account from them is reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The school, its current and former students and the police investigation are in Illinois (s1, s2); the charges and the detention hearing are in an Illinois county circuit court (s4).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Core case (depicted_or_impersonated): police and prosecutors who examined the teacher's phone say it held photographs of his students altered with an AI app into sexual images, and prosecutors told the detention hearing the app was found on the phone. Eight felony charges, a detention order and the school board's dismissal are reported; the AI allegations are charging statements awaiting trial. Neither the accused nor any student is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutors examined the evidence: according to the joint police and prosecutor release, a forensic examination of the teacher's phone by the prosecutor's cyber lab found numerous images of students altered using AI into explicit images (s1, s5, s6, s7), and prosecutors told the detention hearing that the images were altered with AI to make children appear nude and that the AI app used was found on the phone (s2). The app is not named. These are charging statements and in-court allegations, not court findings.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Illinois teacher charged after prosecutors say his phone held students' photos altered with an AI app into sexual images","summary":"Illinois police and prosecutors charged a middle-school teacher in July 2026 with eight felony child-pornography counts. They say a forensic examination of his phone found photographs of students, taken at school, that had been altered with an AI app into nude or explicit images, and prosecutors told a detention hearing the app was on the phone. A judge ordered him detained and the school board dismissed him; the charges are unproven.","incidentDate":"2026-04-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-06-03","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-03","aiSystem":"An AI app, not named in the reports, that prosecutors say was found on the teacher's phone and used to alter students' photographs into nude or sexually explicit images; the prosecutor's office told the Chicago Tribune an AI program placed students' heads on other people's bodies","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Photographs of middle-school students, including children aged 12 to 14, were altered with an AI app into nude or explicit images by their teacher, according to police and prosecutors; the district says supporting students' well-being is its immediate focus and authorities say they are connecting affected families with support services. The allegations are charges awaiting trial.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"Prosecutors describe numerous images, multiple students, children aged 12 to 14 and former students now adults, without a count of people; images are not counted as people. Unquantified, numeric placeholders 0.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-IL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/07/03/libertyville-middle-school-teacher-charged-with-videotaping-students-using-ai-to-create-explicit-images/","primarySourceLabel":"Lake & McHenry County Scanner, 3 July 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-07-06T02:45:01.237307+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:04:40.861097+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["csam","deepfake","minor","school","teacher","criminal-charges","illinois","depicted-or-impersonated","restored"]}]}