{"id":482451,"date":"2026-03-18T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482451\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:20:08","slug":"billingham-man-used-ai-to-make-sexual-images-of-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482451\/","title":{"rendered":"Billingham man used AI to make sexual images of girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 20 June 2025, police were told Wray had set up further accounts, including on social networking app MeetMe, and was once again posing as the girl and sending sexualised images of her to others, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took photographs he found of her from her social media and used an AI system to remove clothing and put her in provocative poses, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When officers went to his home, he delayed letting them in by claiming he was in the shower when in reality he was deleting evidence from his devices, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police found he had erased his search history, messages and  27 dating and social media apps, all of which breached his SHPO, Wetherley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On his phone, officers also found 19 sexual images of children, including 12 in the most serious category featuring children aged between two and 10 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 20 June 2025, police were told Wray had set up further accounts, including on social networking app&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-482451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}