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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA classroom is seen at Wazoson Public School of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n
Two 14-year-old boys have been charged with making and possessing child sexual exploitation materials and voyeurism.<\/p>\n
Police began investigating after a teacher at the school reported the images in late March.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was discussion throughout the school that these existed and those concerns were brought forward to teachers,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Alison Church with the joint police agency.<\/p>\n
Church said photos of several girls were taken without their consent. Those photos and others pulled from social media were then used to develop the exploitative images with AI software.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege the boys shared the images with each other on their phones.<\/p>\n
Bosch said she and her team are still sorting out what software was used to create the images.<\/p>\n
She said the case has left the girls with intense feelings of shame and embarrassment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a misconception that because it\u2019s AI, it\u2019s not real, that the impact is not significant,\u201d Bosch said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are very convincing images, and that\u2019s why the impact on victims is so significant \u2026 think about how that would impact a teenager, especially considering that it impacts how their peers may view them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Church said AI-generated exploitative images are common.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnecdotally, we are hearing about this starting to happen in the schools,\u201d Church said. \u201cSadly, this is a reality of the challenges that youth, parents and police are facing with advancements in technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that a similar case in Calgary led to a charge against a high school student in December.<\/p>\n
Ottawa is working on legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media and address deepfake images.<\/p>\n
She said developers of nudifying AI tools should be held accountable.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, investigators want parents to have serious conversations with their children.<\/p>\n
Church said youth who use AI to develop nude images need to be told what they\u2019re doing is illegal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are serious crimes. You will be held accountable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Bosch said parents also need to teach their children about what online grooming and healthy relationships look like.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2026.<\/p>\n
Note to readers:This is a corrected story. A previous version described Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams as the province\u2019s police watchdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 Alberta police are encouraging parents to have serious conversations with their children about being online after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-744731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}