{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-20T07:07:18.194Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"guilty_plea","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":2,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":3,"coreRelations":3,"contextualRelations":0,"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. 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Some of these images had been digitally manipulated to create sexualised content by altering clothing and appearance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Many of the photos were taken from his bedroom window overlooking a children's playground, and forensic examination found more than 5,000 images of women and girls in public places, some digitally manipulated to create sexualised content.","causal_attribution":"Police description of the source photographs and the manipulated images."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"A limited number of those photographed have been identified and are receiving specialist support, but officers still need to identify many more. ... The nature of his offending has understandably left those who have learned of it feeling unsettled and violated","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A limited number of those photographed have been identified and are receiving specialist support; the investigating officer says those who learned of the offending feel unsettled and violated.","causal_attribution":"Police account of the effect on identified victims."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The result was that a victim and their family found themselves living in close proximity to a man who had admitted targeting them. They were so fearful, ultimately felt forced to move to distant temporary accommodation ... using an AI photo editing technology to manipulate those images","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Commissioner says a victim and their family felt forced to move to distant temporary accommodation because the man was bailed to his home near them, and that he used an AI photo editing technology.","causal_attribution":"The Commissioner links the move to the bail decision and to living near a man who had admitted targeting them; he separately says the man used an AI photo editing technology on photos of children known to him. The release does not say whether this family's children appear in the manipulated images."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months today (Thursday, 24 September) at Wood Green Crown Court. ... On Thursday, 6 August he pleaded guilty to the following offences but was bailed by the court to await sentencing","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He pleaded guilty on 6 August 2026 to offences including making indecent images of children and creating a purported intimate image of adults, and was sentenced on 24 September 2026 at Wood Green Crown Court to two years and four months.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as announced by the police."}],"effects":[{"label":"covert photos of women and children turned into sexual images with AI","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a victim's family felt forced to move while the offender was on bail","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-sentenced-after-using-ai-to-create-sexually-explicit-images-of-children-513236","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. Metropolitan Police newsroom release of 24 September 2026; no translation needed.","independence_group":"met-police-24-sep-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used.","How many people were depicted in manipulated images and how many have been identified.","When the offending began."],"geography":{"basis":"The police say many photos were taken from his bedroom window overlooking a playground and others in the surrounding area, and the police appeal is addressed to the Enfield area of London, so the photography and the affected people are in the United Kingdom; sentencing was at Wood Green Crown Court.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the Metropolitan Police say detectives established that a man used AI to turn covert photos of women and children into sexually explicit images; identified victims are receiving support and the Commissioner says one family felt forced to move. Single official source; no victim is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Metropolitan Police say detectives established that the man used AI to turn photos he took of women and children into sexually explicit images, including by removing their clothing, and the Commissioner says he used an AI photo editing technology to manipulate images of children known to him. The AI-made sexual depictions of real people are the abuse at issue; identified victims are receiving support and one family felt forced to move. The tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Met Police say a man used AI to turn covert photos of women and children into sexual images; a victim's family moved away while he was on bail","summary":"The Metropolitan Police said on 24 September 2026 that a man from London had been sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to two years and four months after pleading guilty to offences including making indecent images of children and creating a purported intimate image of adults. Detectives established that he had photographed women and children in ordinary circumstances, many from his bedroom window overlooking a children's playground, before using AI to turn the photos into sexually explicit images, including by removing their clothing. A limited number of those photographed have been identified and are receiving specialist support. The Commissioner said a victim and their family felt forced to move to temporary accommodation because the man was bailed to his home near them before sentencing.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"An AI photo editing technology, as the Commissioner describes it, that the man used to sexualise photographs of women and children (tool not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Met Police, a man used AI to turn covert photos of women and children into sexually explicit images; identified victims are receiving specialist support, and the Commissioner says one victim's family felt forced to move while he was on bail.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One victim, whose family the Commissioner says felt forced to move, is counted as harmed in this case (the release does not say whether that victim appears in the AI-manipulated images); the police say a limited number of other identified people are receiving support but give no number, and the 5,000 photographed people are not all described as depicted in manipulated images.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-sentenced-after-using-ai-to-create-sexually-explicit-images-of-children-513236","primarySourceLabel":"Metropolitan Police, 24 Sep 2026: Man sentenced after using AI to create sexually explicit images of children","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T03:20:16.758562+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:20:16.758562+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_altered_images","covert_photography","sexualised_images_of_children","guilty_plea","united_kingdom"]},{"id":"2023-greater-manchester-prosecutors-say-man-used-ai-to-turn-photos-of-real-children-into-abuse-images-sold-to-order-jailed","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"used a computer programme and AI technology to alter photographs of real children to create sexual abuse images","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A student who used AI technology \"in the worst possible way\" to turn photographs of real children into \"depraved\" indecent images has been jailed for 18 years.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The CPS says the man used a computer programme and AI technology to alter photographs of real children to create sexual abuse images.","causal_attribution":"The prosecuting authority, which examined the evidence from his seized devices, attributes the images to AI technology; the BBC court report repeats it, partly quoting the CPS, so it is one prosecution origin. The tool is not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"accepted requests from individuals who wanted him to create explicit images depicting children being harmed both sexually and physically, which he either sold in exchange for money or shared to others for free. Some of these computer-generated images requested used images of real children.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The court heard he took requests from people who wanted him to create explicit images of children being harmed both sexually and physically.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the CPS, he accepted requests in encrypted chatrooms to create explicit images of children being harmed, sold or shared them, and some of the requested images used images of real children; he admitted making around 5,000 pounds over 18 months.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution account of how the AI-altered images were commissioned and distributed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"previously pleading guilty to a total of 16 charges relating to child sexual abuse offences. ... On 28 October 2024, he was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment with an additional 6 years on extended licence.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"who pleaded guilty to 16 child sexual abuse offences, also encouraged the rape of children in online chatrooms.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He pleaded guilty to 16 child sexual abuse offences, including three counts of encouraging the rape of a child under 13, and on 28 October 2024 was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to 18 years' imprisonment with an additional six years on extended licence.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome; the encouragement offences concern chatroom messages, not the AI images."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The misuse of emerging technology to create this material is a serious crime which can have a real impact on victims. Real children are being victimised through the creation of this content.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The CPS prosecutor said real children are victimised through the creation of such content.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutor's statement of harm; no individual child's experience is described."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"after he was first arrested in June 2023 by Greater Manchester Police, and a number of his digital devices were seized and examined.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"His offences were uncovered when he began speaking to an undercover police officer in May last year.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Greater Manchester Police arrested him in June 2023 and examined his devices; the BBC court report says the offences were uncovered when he spoke to an undercover officer.","causal_attribution":"Investigation chronology; the BBC's 'May last year' (2023) is the court report's wording."}],"effects":[{"label":"real children's photographs altered with AI into sexual abuse images sold to order","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man-who-used-ai-technology-create-child-sexual-abuse-images-jailed","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. Crown Prosecution Service press release of 28 October 2024; no translation needed.","independence_group":"cps-28-oct-2024"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6l241z5mjo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. BBC court report of the sentencing hearing, quoting the judge, the prosecutor, the police and the CPS.","independence_group":"bbc-court-report-28-oct-2024"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool and computer programme were used.","How many real children were depicted and whether any were identified or informed.","When the 18-month period of selling began; the sources date only the June 2023 arrest and the 2023 and 2024 pleas."],"geography":{"basis":"The case was investigated by Greater Manchester Police and sentenced at Bolton Crown Court, United Kingdom (GB). The images were made and traded online and the BBC says some requests came from abroad; the sources do not say where the depicted children live or where the images were made, so no event or affected-person country is recorded.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the Crown Prosecution Service says the man used AI technology to alter photographs of real children into sexual abuse images he made to order and sold, and the BBC court report gives the same account of the 2024 sentencing. No child is identified; the defendant is not named in the record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Crown Prosecution Service, which brought the case after police examined his seized devices, says the man used a computer programme and AI technology to alter photographs of real children into sexual abuse images that he made to order and sold or shared; the BBC court report of the sentencing gives the same account. The AI-altered depictions of real children are the abuse material at the centre of the offences. The tool is not named in the sources read.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"UK prosecutors say a Greater Manchester man used AI tools to turn photos of real children into sexual abuse images he sold to order; jailed for 18 years in 2024","summary":"The Crown Prosecution Service said on 28 October 2024 that a man from Bolton had been sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to 18 years' imprisonment with an additional six years on extended licence after pleading guilty to 16 child sexual abuse offences. According to the CPS, he used a computer programme and AI technology to alter photographs of real children into sexual abuse images, which he made to order for people in encrypted chatrooms and sold or shared, and some of the requested images used images of real children. The CPS says he admitted making about 5,000 pounds over 18 months. He was arrested by Greater Manchester Police in June 2023. The BBC court report says the offences were uncovered when he spoke to an undercover officer. He also admitted encouraging the rape of children under 13 in chatrooms.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-10-28","aiSystem":"A computer programme and AI technology that, according to the CPS, the man used to alter photographs of real children into sexual abuse images (tool not named in the sources read)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the CPS, a man used AI technology to alter photographs of real children into sexual abuse images that he made to order and sold or shared in chatrooms; prosecutors say real children are victimised through such content.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No count: the CPS says some requested images used images of real children but gives no number of children depicted. The '60 characters' in the BBC court report are characters he described, not a count of real children.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man-who-used-ai-technology-create-child-sexual-abuse-images-jailed","primarySourceLabel":"Crown Prosecution Service, 28 Oct 2024: Man who used AI technology to create child sexual abuse images jailed","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T03:18:07.543351+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:18:07.543351+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_altered_images","child_sexual_abuse_material","images_made_to_order","guilty_plea","united_kingdom"]},{"id":"2023-merseyside-police-say-man-used-ai-to-make-indecent-pseudo-images-of-children-and-sexual-deepfakes-jailed","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs/pseudo-photographs of a child, sharing a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state for the purpose of sexual gratification and voyeurism. ... He was jailed for two years and two months yesterday, Tuesday 22 October, at Liverpool Crown Court.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He was jailed for two years and two months on October 22 at Liverpool Crown Court.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The man pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child, sharing a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state for the purpose of sexual gratification, and voyeurism, and was jailed for two years and two months at Liverpool Crown Court on 22 October 2024.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as announced by the police; no AI role is stated in the offence names."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"As part of a complex investigation, it was also found that between July 2023 and January 2024, ... made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Merseyside Police say an investigation found that between July 2023 and January 2024 the man made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology.","causal_attribution":"The investigating police attribute the 266 pseudo-images to AI technology; they do not name the tool or say how they established its use."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"including creating and sharing digitally altered pornographic images of children and women – known more commonly as ‘deepfakes’. ... A ‘deepfake’ is an image or video that has been digitally altered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace the face of one person with the face of another. ... used the faces of real women and children without their knowledge to create pornographic images and shared them online.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"using artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the faces of real women and children before sharing them online, Merseyside Police said.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The police say the man used the faces of real women and children without their knowledge to create pornographic images and shared them online, and describe the images as digitally altered images known as deepfakes, which the release defines as images altered with the help of AI to replace one person's face with another's.","causal_attribution":"Police account; the release's own AI statement (c2) concerns the pseudo-images of children, and the BBC relay extends the AI wording to the women's images."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Knowing those images of me are out there circulating the internet is so violating. ... A second woman who was targeted in the same way said in her Victim Impact Statement","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I worry when a man looks at me for too long and panic that he may have seen the images.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Two women gave victim impact statements, published by the police, describing a sense of violation, fear that others had seen the images, anxiety and difficulty sleeping.","causal_attribution":"The statements describe harm from the pornographic images; the sources do not say whether these women's images were made with AI."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"he obviously didn't know how to create these deepfake images at that point, so he had uploaded hundreds of headshots of me off my Facebook, Instagram, family photos that were shared in our groupchat and he had asked people to deface them. ... there was no law against deepfake pornography at the time so technically no crime had been committed. ... was arrested in January 2023, with police pinning their investigation on the missing black heels. ... It never went to the Crown Prosecution Service. They decided on that day there was not a case to be answered.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"opened Facebook in September 2022, she found an anonymous message ... Then a quick Google search of the username uncovered a series of digitally altered images, with her face superimposed onto the naked bodies of other women. ... There was no law against deepfake pornography at the time so technically no crime had been committed","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"A woman related to the man by marriage says the explicit images of her that she found online after anonymous messages in September 2022 were made by other people he had asked to deface her photos, because he did not then know how to make deepfakes himself, and that the case never went to prosecutors after his arrest in January 2023; the Echo and SWNS report that no law then covered such images.","causal_attribution":"In this account the earlier images of her were made by other people he asked to deface her photos (the method is not stated); they predate the period the police describe and are context, not among the AI-made images the police count."}],"effects":[{"label":"real children's and women's faces used in sexual images, which the police say included 266 AI-made pseudo-images of children","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"two women describe violation, anxiety and fear after discovering the images","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2024/october/southport-man-jailed-for-creating-digitally-altered-pornographic-images-of-children-and-women/","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20 through an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2024id_/...), because the live page returned HTTP 403; no translation needed.","independence_group":"merseyside-police-oct-2024"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3820nq7zo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. BBC report relaying the Merseyside Police release and victim impact statements, the same police origin as s1.","independence_group":"merseyside-police-oct-2024"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/23/man-jailed-making-indecent-deepfake-images-children-women-21851607/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. Metro report reproducing the police release wording, the same police origin as s1.","independence_group":"merseyside-police-oct-2024"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mums-deepfake-horror-brother-law-33992504","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20 through an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2026id_/...), because the live page returned an empty HTTP 202; interview with a woman related to the man by marriage.","independence_group":"relative-interviews-2026"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.jambalayanews.com/news/national/woman-victim-of-deepfake-porn-by-family-member-helps-change-law/article_c5780438-a23f-5667-8247-deca2c6d5cce.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-20; HTTP 200. SWNS feature syndicated by Jambalaya News, based on an interview with the same woman as s4, so not independent of s4.","independence_group":"relative-interviews-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how the police established its use.","How many children and women were depicted; 266 is the police count of AI-made pseudo-images of children.","Whether the two women who gave victim impact statements were depicted in AI-made images or in images made by other means.","Where the images were shared online and whether they were removed."],"geography":{"basis":"The case was investigated by Merseyside Police and sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court, so the court country is the United Kingdom (GB). The sources describe the man as from Southport but do not say where the images were made, uploaded or viewed, or where the depicted children and women live, so no event or affected-person country is recorded.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the investigating Merseyside Police say the man made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology and used real women's and children's faces in pornographic images he shared online; he pleaded guilty and was jailed. The technical basis of the police AI attribution is undisclosed, and a relative's account that her earlier images were edited by other people is recorded as context. No victim is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The investigating Merseyside Police say the man made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology between July 2023 and January 2024 and that he used the faces of real women and children without their knowledge in pornographic images he shared online. The AI-made depictions of real people were the sexual images at the centre of the offences. The police do not name the tool or say how they established its use, and their explicit statement of AI use concerns the pseudo-images of children; the images of women are called deepfakes, which the release defines as images altered with the help of AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Merseyside police say a man used AI to make 266 indecent pseudo-images of children and made sexual deepfakes of real women; he was jailed in 2024","summary":"Merseyside Police said in October 2024 that a Southport man had been jailed for two years and two months at Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty to making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child, sharing an intimate photograph or film, and voyeurism. According to the police, an investigation found that between July 2023 and January 2024 he made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology, and that he used the faces of real women and children without their knowledge to create pornographic images, which the force calls deepfakes, and shared them online. Two women described in victim impact statements lasting fear, anxiety and a sense of violation. A woman related to him by marriage later told the Liverpool Echo that explicit images of her, which she found online after anonymous messages in September 2022, were made by other people he had asked to deface her photos, and that the case never went to prosecutors after his arrest in January 2023.","incidentDate":"2023-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2024-01-31","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-10-23","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI technology that Merseyside Police say the man used to make indecent pseudo-images of children (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Merseyside Police say the man made 266 indecent pseudo-images of children using AI technology between July 2023 and January 2024, and used the faces of real women and children without their knowledge in pornographic images he shared online; two women described lasting anxiety and a sense of violation.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No reliable count: the police say real children's and women's faces were used but give no number of people depicted (266 is a count of images). Two women gave victim impact statements, but the sources do not establish that their images were among those the police tie to AI, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2024/october/southport-man-jailed-for-creating-digitally-altered-pornographic-images-of-children-and-women/","primarySourceLabel":"Merseyside Police, 23 Oct 2024: Southport man jailed for creating digitally altered pornographic images of children and women","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T03:04:09.115741+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:04:09.115741+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_generated_images","pseudo_images_of_children","sexual_deepfakes","guilty_plea","united_kingdom"]}]}