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The case began when a teenage victim contacted Greenwood police in March and said he possessed nude photographs of her. Investigators say the phone contained images of at least two underage girls Steffey knew personally, and that he allegedly used AI to remove the victim's clothes from photographs and a video. Stewart Steffey was charged with one count of child exploitation, a Level 5 felony, on September 30. Per court documents, he initially denied that any nude images on his phone were of underage girls, and later said the images of the victim had been altered with AI. 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No AI model, developer, tool name, version or deployment setting is stated, so system fields are left out. The sources describe a person using a generative AI tool, not an autonomous agent, so agent-related fields (agent_involved, failure_class) are left out. No safeguard, control, remediation or response by any AI provider is stated. The year of the March police contact is not stated, so it is given as the month only. The date the incident occurred, and the date it was disclosed, are not stated; the article's 2026-10-07 date is a publication date and was not used as a disclosure date. The exact number of images and of affected people is not stated; the 'at least two underage girls' phrasing was used as the stated count for the severity test. Country US is a judgement from the Indiana location and the U.S. legal references in the source, not a direct statement of the incident's country. The 'last week' arrest timing is relative to the article date and was kept as stated. Information about other cases and the national legal context was left out because it does not concern this incident. 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