A teacher promoted to the head (principal) position, who had previously been jailed for stealing from his school, was also jailed for abusing 13 boys, a girl and an adult at the start of this week.
The BBC has the story here including the story crawl inset and at the bottom of the page from localised sources.
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Sadly, Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana’s offer of free training during their “Night Out Against Child Sexual Abuse” falls on a night that I will be unavailable, but for others in Louisiana, you may want to take a look and learn a thing or two: Registration is now open for our Night Out Against Child Sexual…
After evading capture for four years in as many states, a teacher accused of making child abuse images using school equipment has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list. The BBC has the general background here although the alleged offender won’t be immediately taken off the list even if he gets captured or killed by Federal…
As the article explains, there is no federal law against this in the US. There are some state laws, but they’re not very effective. The problem is that we’ve always treated sexual abuse materials as criminal because, as the saying goes, behind every photo is a child being abused. With deepfakes, though, the abuse isn’t happening. So when a teen girl is the subject of deepfake porn, she was never sexually assaulted, so there’s no crime.
There’s a lot of harm, though. In the case of a celebrity, it might be reputational harm. In the case of teenagers, that fake can turn into blackmail, bullying, and all the mental health issues that go along with that. (The same is true of adults, but we know how vulnerable teens are to this and how this too often ends.)
