{"id":570077,"date":"2026-04-07T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:27:09","slug":"lee-college-debate-coach-accused-of-creating-sexual-ai-generated-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570077\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee College debate coach accused of creating sexual AI-generated video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Baytown college debate coach has been accused of creating an explicit\u00a0deepfake video involving a woman he knows and a\u00a0juvenile, court filings allege.<\/p>\n<p>Lee College debate coach Rigoberto Ruiz was charged with unlawful production of sexually explicit media, according to Harris County court records, after his then-girlfriend reportedly found a\u00a0deepfake video portraying a woman, who both she and Ruiz knew, performing sexual acts with a juvenile. The video was created using photos of the females,\u00a0court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities alleged\u00a0Ruiz created the video &#8220;with the intent to deceive and depict a real person performing an act that did not occur in reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee College did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz&#8217;s attorney, Nathaniel Pitoniak, said in an emailed statement: &#8220;We look forward to presenting our case in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Baytown college debate coach has been accused of creating an explicit\u00a0deepfake video involving a woman he knows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-570077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}