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The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said investigators received a tip that he was having inappropriate communication with a child. Investigators traced a device downloading child sexual abuse material to his cell, and prison staff recovered it. The sheriff estimated the Snapchat image reached hundreds to thousands of children, and said none appeared to engage. Kendall was first arrested in November 2023 and sentenced in Broward County in September 2024, and is expected to face further charges.","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":"Major test: many third parties with a stated count of two or more. The sheriff estimated the AI-generated nude image went to hundreds to thousands of children.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://cbs12.com/news/local/man-sentenced-25-years-accused-creating-ai-generation-child-sexual-abuse-images-martin-county-special-victims-unit-martin-county-correctional-institution-florida-news","publisher":"WPEC","date":"2026-10-22","type":"press","title":"Man sentenced to 25 years accused of creating AI-generated sexual abuse images in prison - WPEC","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.trigger":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.trigger":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators determined that he communicated with the child through social media and used artificial intelligence to create thousands of sexually explicit images depicting the victim from his original case, the sheriff’s office said."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A man sentenced to 25 years in prison for child sexual abuse material offenses is accused of committing a similar crime from his prison cell."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The sheriff estimated it went to hundreds to thousands of children and said none of them appeared to engage with Kendall."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The sheriff estimated it went to hundreds to thousands of children and said none of them appeared to engage with Kendall."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Kendall Jr. was being held at Martin Correctional Institution for offenses originating in Broward County when investigators received a tip that he was having inappropriate communication with a child."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators traced the device to Kendall’s cell, and prison staff recovered it, he said."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The sheriff estimated it went to hundreds to thousands of children and said none of them appeared to engage with Kendall."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Kendall will be taken to the Martin County Jail and is expected to face additional charges related to child sexual abuse material, along with other charges."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"No AI model, developer, product or harness is named, and no autonomous agent is described; the AI tool used is unidentified, so system fields are omitted. The exact date of the offending, the date of detection, and the tip source are not stated (the tip is only given as last month). Prison phone controls are described as failing, but no listed control ID is stated in the sources, so no links are recorded. The sheriff's call for jamming and drone equipment is a recommendation to the state, not a change made, so no remediation is recorded. Judgements: event.date_disclosed uses the article date 2026-10-22; trigger set to human_misuse because the source states a person used AI; incident_class set to harmful_output; root_cause set to oversight for the illegal phone in the cell; severity major because the sheriff stated a count of hundreds to thousands of children. The number of images and recipients is stated only as thousands and hundreds to thousands, so no exact count is recorded. Federal charges are expected but not confirmed as filed. The 25-year sentence in the title relates to the earlier Broward County case, not the AI images. 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