Overview
- Guardia Civil cyber units identified a 14-year-old from Logroño as the alleged creator and distributor of sexual deepfakes affecting nine female classmates and have sent the file to the Fiscalía de Menores under juvenile procedure.
- Investigators say the suspect took images from the victims’ social-media profiles, used AI tools to digitally undress and sexualize them, and organized the material with personal data before uploading it to an adult website.
- The falsified pornographic material amassed roughly 40,000 views before it was removed, a rapid spread that investigators say multiplied the emotional and social harm to the nine minors.
- Authorities are treating the acts as possible crimes of discovery and revelation of secrets, corruption of minors and child pornography under Spain’s Ley Orgánica 5/2000, and they note parents or tutors may face joint civil liability for moral damages.
- Beyond this case, investigators warn that easy-to-use AI, publicly available profile photos and slow platform takedowns make non-consensual sexual deepfakes harder to stop and increase lasting harm to victims.