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He was arrested in June 2025 and has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene visuals of child sexual abuse material and publishing digital forgeries. The release said he posted over 700 images to a website dedicated to child sexual abuse and sent messages with real and AI-generated nude images to at least six adult female victims. It also said he had 2,400 images and videos on his phone and had downloaded more than 24 AI platforms and over 100 web-based AI models. He is the first person convicted under the federal Take It Down Act, signed in May 2025, which criminalizes posting nonconsensual explicit imagery, including deepfakes. 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No date of occurrence is stated. The disclosure date is only the article date (2026-04-08) and is not stated in the text, so it is omitted. Detection method and trigger are not stated, so they are omitted. Source 1 repeats source 0 and was not separately cited. The six victims are a lower bound ('at least six'), so the count of 6 is a minimum. Severity 'major' is my judgement from the stated count of two or more affected parties. agent_involved is set false as my judgement: the sources describe a person using AI tools and no autonomous agent. Remediation and control links are omitted because the sources report no control that held, failed, or was missing in this incident. The Take It Down Act is a legal measure, not a party's system change, so it is not recorded as a remediation. Tuesday dates are given as stated in the sources without resolving them to calendar dates. 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