{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0392","record_version":1,"title":"Charlotte man convicted for AI-generated child sexual abuse images","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.1,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":1.92,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"38a41f6b690e8d8b4348c4dbe18060629562f2755b4b0707355e860f742e5651"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-01-27","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A Charlotte man used an AI platform to generate original images of child sexual abuse material, including images depicting prepubescent minors, and used the same platform to nudify existing images of real people. In April 2023 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip that he was uploading such material to an online account. In December 2023 authorities executed a search warrant at his home and seized nine devices containing more than 30,000 AI-generated images and videos and over 8,600 other images and videos of CSAM. He pleaded guilty on April 23, 2025 to possession and access with intent to view child pornography involving a minor under 12, and to obscene visual representations of sexual abuse of children. He was sentenced on January 27, 2026 to 78 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, sex offender registration and restitution.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Moderate tier: the test is data of others touched with a bounded scope stated; the source states nine devices holding more than 30,000 AI-generated and over 8,600 other images and videos of CSAM, and it names real people whose images were nudified.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.wyff4.com/article/ai-generated-child-abuse-images-prison-sentencing/70165162","publisher":"WYFF","date":"2026-01-27","type":"press","title":"Man used AI to create tens of thousands of sexual images of minors, prosecutors say - WYFF","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","impact.severity":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Forensics showed that Broadway used an AI platform to generate original images of CSAM, including images depicting prepubescent minors."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The devices contained more than 30,000 images and videos of AI-generated CSAM and over 8,600 images and videos of CSAM."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The devices contained more than 30,000 images and videos of AI-generated CSAM and over 8,600 images and videos of CSAM."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Forensics showed that Broadway used an AI platform to generate original images of CSAM, including images depicting prepubescent minors."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"He further used the AI platform to nudify existing images of real people."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"According to court documents, in April 2023, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip that an individual later identified as Daniel Joseph Broadway was uploading child sexual abuse material to an online account."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In December 2023, authorities executed a search warrant at Broadway’s home and seized nine electronic devices."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The devices contained more than 30,000 images and videos of AI-generated CSAM and over 8,600 images and videos of CSAM."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"On April 23, 2025, Broadway pleaded guilty to possession and access with intent to view child pornography involving a minor under the age of 12, and obscene visual representations of sexual abuse of children involving a minor under the age of 12."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In addition to the prison term, Broadway has been ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release, to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison, and to pay $17,000 in special assessments and $15,000 in restitution."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The source is a press report on a federal sentencing. It does not name the AI platform, its developer, model, or deployment context, and it states nothing about the platform's safeguards, so no control outcomes are recorded. The source does not state when the misuse occurred, so date_occurred is omitted; the April 2023 cybertip is recorded only as detection. The source does not say whether the AI platform was an autonomous agent, so agent_involved is recorded as false from the account of a person generating images directly. Trigger human_misuse and the third_party detection method are my classifications from the stated facts. The severity tier moderate is my judgement: the stated count of nine devices and over 30,000 images bounds the scope, but no count of affected victims is stated. The sentencing date is taken from the article's sentencing paragraph; the article's publication date is not used as a disclosure date. The victims, data categories and loss amounts are not stated; the $15,000 restitution is not recorded as direct loss. Country US is taken from the U.S. Attorney's title in the quote. [case created by the backfill: read by claude-haiku-5-5, backfill-2026-11-01.2, 2026-11-01; not yet reviewed] [2026-11-01: evidence level set: Preliminary (Publisher not yet named · subject to change)]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"unknown","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null}}