Prosecutor arrested for AI abuse material

New Jersey's deputy attorney general Brian Richard Fitzgerald, fifty-one, was arrested Thursday on felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Bucks County Detectives said.

How investigators found him

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip in July that a Discord user shared an illicit image.Cops used digital forensics and subscriber records to track the account to Fitzgerald's home address.

Evidence recovered at his home

Police found prompts and scripts used to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Discord chat logs showed Fitzgerald, under username thegentlemanpervert underscore twenty one sixty underscore zero seven eight three three, admitted making multiple illicit…

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What Fitzgerald was accused of doing

Fitzgerald used AI to transform photos of real minors from social media into sexualized images, then distributed them on social media.

State's top prosecutor responds

New Jersey district attorney Joe Khan said the state views AI CSAM as equally harmful as CSAM itself.Khan stated: No one is above the law, least of all someone entrusted with upholding it.

“No one is above the law, least of all someone entrusted with upholding it.”