Child Exploitation

NJ Deputy Attorney General Brian Fitzgerald arrested on AI-generated CSAM charges

Bucks County Detectives say New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Brian Richard Fitzgerald, 51, was arrested on felony charges tied to AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Investigators allege he used AI to turn real minors' social media photos into sexualized images and distributed them on Discord under the username 'thegentlemanpervert_2160_07833.' The arrest followed a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, digital forensics tracing a Discord account to his address, and a search that recovered AI prompts, scripts and chat logs in which he allegedly admitted creating and sharing the images.

arstechnica.com · 2026-10-16

Two Nigerian men extradited to US over sextortion deaths of two teens

Adebola Festus Adekunle, 26, and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale, 24, were extradited from Nigeria to face U.S. charges tied to sextortion schemes that led to the deaths of two minors in Mississippi and North Carolina. Both men were arrested in Nigeria in August 2023 as part of 'Operation Artemis,' an international crackdown on sextortion rings targeting American minors, and now face charges including sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death, production of child sexual abuse material, and coercion of minors.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-08-31