A man has been jailed for 18 years for the sexual abuse of two children. Paul Pender, 58, committed historical offences against two children who were both aged under 12 at the time, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The content investigated in Operation Cumberland was “fully artificial” with “no real victim depicted,” but AI-generated child sexual abuse material “still contributes to the objectification and sexualization of children,

A Tennessee man accused in lawsuits of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women has received a 95-year prison sentence for two other types of offenses: the production of child sex abuse images and an escape from an inmate transport van.

Europol has conducted a sting operation against a group whose members engage in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence.

The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members engaged in distributing fully AI-generated images of minors, according to the agency. The operation is one of the first involving such child sexual abuse material (CSAM),

Europol said 25 people have been arrested as part of a group that was allegedly distributing artificial intelligence-generated images of child sexual abuse, in one of the first major cases involving this type of tech-enabled crime.

Law enforcement authorities in 19 countries have conducted a "large-scale hit against child sexual exploitation," supported by Europol, the European police agency announced in The Hague on Friday. "The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members were engaged in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (AI),