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Police had received several complaints in January from teenage girls whose images had been digitally altered and posted on social media. The RNC traced the images to the teenager, and on July 29th he was charged with 19 counts each of making, possessing, and distributing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, plus one count of accessing such material. The sources do not describe the AI tool used, its developer, or any safeguard that did or did not operate. 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It states no AI system, model, developer, harness, tools, permissions, or deployment context, so no system fields are given. It states no autonomous agent, so agent_involved and all failure-class fields are omitted. No control is described as held, failed, or missing, so links are empty. No remediation is reported. The year is not stated for the January complaints or the July 29th charge, so date_occurred and date_detected are omitted; the 2026 year is inferred from the article date and not used. The publication date 2026-08-11 is taken as date_disclosed. The country is not named in the source, so context.country is omitted despite the RNC and Goulds references; industry is omitted. The source says the teenager was alleged to have done this and gives no court outcome, so the charges are treated as allegations. Severity is a judgement: 'several complaints' is not a stated count of two or more affected parties, so 'moderate' was chosen on the bounded-scope test rather than 'major'. The affected party count, records, loss, and remediation hours are not stated and are omitted. Harm class privacy is a judgement from the non-consensual sexual images of others. 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