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The images were altered from photos of a real child aged 7 to 12, and prosecutors say the accused used photos taken from social media. The case began when the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received a report that CSAM had been uploaded to an online platform. Police linked the images to an account belonging to the accused, who was also found to possess other CSAM. He was taken into custody on April 6 while at an elementary school. He has been charged with four felony counts of possession, has pleaded not guilty, and remains in custody on bail set at $250,000. Investigators have identified at least two victims, and prosecutors say another victim has been identified.","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":"major","severity_because":"Test: many third parties, a stated count of two or more affected parties. Fact: investigators identified at least two victims.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":"At least two victims identified by investigators","protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://churchleaders.com/news/2216232-pastor-kevin-johnson-csam.html","publisher":"ChurchLeaders","date":"2026-04-14","type":"press","title":"Pastor, a School Employee, Charged With Possessing AI-Generated Child Sex Abuse Material - ChurchLeaders","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.detection_method":"C","context.country":"C","impact.affected_description":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"According to a Richland Police Department press release, an investigation began when the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a report that CSAM had been “uploaded to an online platform.”"}],"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A pastor and school employee in Washington state has been arrested under suspicion of possessing child sex abuse material, including AI-generated content."}],"impact.affected_description":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators have identified at least two victims."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators determined that the images were created using generative AI."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators have identified at least two victims."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators have identified at least two victims."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A pastor and school employee in Washington state has been arrested under suspicion of possessing child sex abuse material, including AI-generated content."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Johnson is accused of using photos of a child from social media and using AI to turn them into CSAM."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"According to a Richland Police Department press release, an investigation began when the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a report that CSAM had been “uploaded to an online platform.”"},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators determined that the images were created using generative AI."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police also said that Johnson was in possession of other CSAM."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"On April 6, Johnson was taken into custody while at Cottonwood Elementary School."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Johnson has been charged with four felony counts of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"He has pleaded not guilty."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Bail has been set at $250,000."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators have identified at least two victims."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources describe a human suspect who allegedly used a generative AI tool to alter photos of a real child; no AI system, model, developer, harness, deployment context or autonomous agent is named or described, so no system fields, failure classes, trigger or root cause are given. No control is stated as held, failed or missing, and no remediation is reported. The year of the April 6 arrest, the date the images were created, and the date of detection are not stated, so no event dates beyond the month and day are given. Country US is a judgement from the stated Washington state location. Severity major is a judgement applying the stated count of at least two victims to the third-party test. RK15 is a judgement that the use of a child's social media photos is personal information misused. The incident class harmful_output is a judgement. The suspect is accused and has pleaded not guilty; nothing here establishes guilt. The sources rest on one press article quoting police and prosecutors, and the victims are not named in them. 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