{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0692","record_version":1,"title":"Kane County, Illinois man charged over AI-generated child sex abuse images","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":51.9,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":15.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":3.2,"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":"1 report: CBS News · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":2,"reports_independent":1,"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":"1 report: CBS News · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"1a932d996dfb6bf0d42077126cdfd01b884e9736629428ca8a0897407e761b76"},"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":"2026-08-20","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"human_misuse","duration":null,"detection_method":"third_party","summary":"Prosecutors allege that a man in Kane County, Illinois used AI apps available to the public to alter photographs of real children and to generate sexually explicit images of children from scratch. The alleged activity ran between November 2025 and May 2026, and the photographs were reportedly taken at a church and a middle school. A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children brought the man to the attention of law enforcement, and a three-month investigation followed. Charges were filed August 12 and he was taken into custody the next day. A judge ordered him detained pending the case. Prosecutors do not believe any of the material was shared online.","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,"primary_risk":"RK15"},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Moderate test met: images of others (real children) were touched, with a bounded scope stated (photographs taken at two named locations, Lord of Life Church and Thompson Middle School).","harm_class":[],"affected_description":"Real children photographed at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in St. Charles, some as young as 11, whose images were allegedly altered or generated with AI.","protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kane-county-illinois-man-charged-children-pornography-a-i/","publisher":"CBS News","date":"2026-08-20","type":"press","title":"Kane County, Illinois, man charged with turning images of children into pornography with AI - CBS News","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"},{"url":"https://patch.com/illinois/stcharles-il/kane-co-man-charged-44-counts-child-sexual-abuse-material","publisher":"Patch","date":"2026-08-20","type":"press","title":"Kane Co. Man Charged With 44 Counts Of Child Sexual Abuse Material - Patch","archived_url":null}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"C","event.trigger":"C","event.detection_method":"C","impact.affected_description":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"Prosecutors allege Jeremy Batterman used artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images and videos involving minors."}],"event.trigger":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Mosser said Batterman used a number of AI apps available to the public to create the images."}],"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children brought Batterman to the attention of law enforcement."}],"impact.affected_description":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Prosecutors said Batterman took photos of children as young as 11 years old at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in st. Charles, then used AI technology to make those pictures into child pornography, otherwise known as child sex abuse material."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Prosecutors said Batterman took photos of children as young as 11 years old at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in st. Charles, then used AI technology to make those pictures into child pornography, otherwise known as child sex abuse material."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Prosecutors said Batterman took photos of children as young as 11 years old at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in st. Charles, then used AI technology to make those pictures into child pornography, otherwise known as child sex abuse material."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A Kane County, Illinois, man stood charged Thursday with gathering real pictures of children and using artificial intelligence to make them into pornography."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Mosser said Batterman used a number of AI apps available to the public to create the images."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Prosecutors allege Batterman used AI between Nov. 13, 2025, and May 17, 2026, to produce sexually explicit images and videos of minors under 18 and under 13."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Prosecutors said Batterman took photos of children as young as 11 years old at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in st. Charles, then used AI technology to make those pictures into child pornography, otherwise known as child sex abuse material."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children brought Batterman to the attention of law enforcement."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Charges were filed Aug. 12, and Batterman was taken into custody by the Kane County Sheriff's Office Aug. 13."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Prosecutors argued he should remain in custody, and the court ordered him detained in the Kane County Jail while the case is pending, finding that no conditions of release could mitigate what the court determined was a real and present threat to the community."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Right now, prosecutors don't believe Batterman shared any of the AI-generated porn online."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Sources describe prosecutors' allegations only; no conviction is stated. The AI apps are not named, so no model, developer, harness or version is recorded. No source says an autonomous agent was involved, so event.agent_involved and failure fields are left out. No source states any safeguard, control or its failure, so links are empty. Sources give no single date of occurrence (only the Nov. 13, 2025 to May 17, 2026 range), and no detection date or public disclosure date beyond the article dates of 2026-08-20. The sources conflict on the next court date (CBS: Sept. 25; Patch: Aug. 20) and on the count breakdown (CBS: 40 production and 4 obscene counts; Patch: 44 counts across several classes). Country and industry are not stated in a form I could quote, so they are left out. Severity 'moderate' is my judgement: real children's images are touched with a bounded scope (two named locations). Trigger 'human_misuse' is my reading of the prosecutor's statement that the man used the apps. No remediation is reported. [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 (1 report: CBS News · 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},"narrative":{"steps":[{"step":"doing","text":"Man allegedly took real photos of children and used AI apps to make them sexually explicit.","quote":"A Kane County, Illinois, man stood charged Thursday with gathering real pictures of children and using artificial intelligence to make them into pornography.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"},{"step":"went_wrong","text":"Prosecutors allege photos were taken at a church and a middle school, then altered or generated into abuse images with AI.","quote":"Prosecutors said Batterman took photos of children as young as 11 years old at Lord of Life Church in Elburn and Thompson Middle School in st. Charles, then used AI technology to make those pictures into child pornography, otherwise known as child sex abuse material.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"},{"step":"caught","text":"A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led police to the man.","quote":"A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children brought Batterman to the attention of law enforcement.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"}],"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"backfill-2026-11-01.2","extracted_at":"2026-11-01","source_urls":["https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kane-county-illinois-man-charged-children-pornography-a-i/","https://patch.com/illinois/stcharles-il/kane-co-man-charged-44-counts-child-sexual-abuse-material"]},"analysis":{"sections":{"timeline":[{"text":"Alleged period of AI image production.","quote":"Prosecutors allege Batterman used AI between Nov. 13, 2025, and May 17, 2026, to produce sexually explicit images and videos of minors under 18 and under 13.","source_index":1,"when":"Nov. 13, 2025 to May 17, 2026"},{"text":"Investigation began after a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.","quote":"Authorities began investigating Batterman after receiving a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.","source_index":0,"when":null},{"text":"CyberTip to NCMEC brought the man to law enforcement's attention.","quote":"A CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children brought Batterman to the attention of law enforcement.","source_index":0,"when":null},{"text":"Three-month investigation by the Kane County Child Exploitation Unit.","quote":"The Kane County Child Exploitation Unit conducted a three-month investigation with assistance from the St. Charles Police Department.","source_index":1,"when":null},{"text":"Charges filed and man taken into custody.","quote":"Charges were filed Aug. 12, and Batterman was taken into custody by the Kane County Sheriff's Office Aug. 13.","source_index":1,"when":"Aug. 12 (charges filed); Aug. 13 (custody)"},{"text":"Pretrial detention hearing.","quote":"Batterman appeared in court Aug. 14 for a pretrial detention hearing.","source_index":1,"when":"Aug. 14"},{"text":"Next court appearance scheduled (per Patch).","quote":"Batterman's next court appearance is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, in Courtroom 313 at the Kane County Judicial Center.","source_index":1,"when":"Thursday, Aug. 20"}]},"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"backfill-2026-11-01.2","extracted_at":"2026-11-01","source_urls":["https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kane-county-illinois-man-charged-children-pornography-a-i/","https://patch.com/illinois/stcharles-il/kane-co-man-charged-44-counts-child-sexual-abuse-material"]}}