CRIME

Hundreds of AI-generated child sexual abuse images found on Utah man’s cell phone, police say

Jan 23, 2025, 11:49 AM

FILE — A person types on a cell phone. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)...

FILE — A person types on a cell phone. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

(Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

SALT LAKE CITY — After a man was arrested and booked on first-degree felony charges for object rape of a child, investigators discovered he had been generating child sexual abuse images using an artificial intelligence app for months.

According to a probable cause affidavit, after Cidriyll A. Greene, 29, was arrested on Nov. 19, 2024, a search warrant was obtained for his home where detectives sought to find any electronic communication devices. The house was searched on Nov. 21, 2024, and three cell phones were located.

On Jan. 6, investigators obtained another search warrant to complete a forensic download that would include photos, video, text messages, call logs, internet history, location data and all other data stored on the devices.

When searching the downloaded material, Weber County sheriff’s detectives located 287 child sexual abuse images inside a password-protected folder on Greene’s devices.

The affidavit said the majority of the images were computer-generated using an AI application that had been downloaded to the cell phone.

Within the app, investigators determined the user was registered under an email with Greene’s name in it, and further located 14 search prompts that were made by the user to generate the images. The prompts, which were all entered after May 1, 2024, “included graphic detail” and specified ages “between 12 and 15 years old.”

Each of the prompts yielded multiple images, the affidavit said, highlighting three that were detailed further in a police report. Of those three prompts, 11 images were created and stored within the application on Greene’s phone.

In addition to the two counts of object rape from November, 10 other first-degree felony charges were recommended to the court Tuesday for aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.

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Hundreds of AI-generated child sexual abuse images found on Utah man’s cell phone, police say