A disaster is brewing on dark-web forums, in messaging apps, and in schools around the world: Generative AI is being used to create sexually explicit images and videos of children, likely thousands a day.

A Longmont man pleaded guilty last week to possessing child sexual material. Paul Beeler, 43, was initially charged with two counts of sexual exploitation – video; and two counts of sexual exploitation of a child – possession.

A DC police officer was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child on Friday after he was identified by his victim while parking his police van on her street. "How in the world did I manage to f--ing do that?

Payne County deputies arrested a Cushing man they say sexually abused a child for years. The affidavit says the victim told investigators when they were 9 years old, Richard Thackray III, touched the child and made the child touch him while they watched TV.