Paedophile Hugh Nelson who made AI child abuse images from real pictures sent to him jailed for 18 years in 'deeply horrifying' landmark case

Published:  Mon 28 Oct 2024

A paedophile who made thousands of pounds by creating child abuse images using AI and real pictures of children has been jailed for 18 years in a landmark case.

Hugh Nelson used a 3D character generator to turn ordinary, non-explicit pictures of children into child abuse images, before selling them on an internet forum used by artists.

People who knew the children in the real world would send the 27-year-old images of them.

Nelson, from Bolton, would then charge his network of paedophiles £80 for a new "character". After that, it was £10 per image to animate them in different, explicit positions.

Over an 18-month period, Nelson admits he made around £5,000 from selling these images.

Read the full article at Sky News.

Watch the interview with IWF Chief Technology Officer, Dan Sexton, and IWF Senior Analyst, 'Jeff', at Sky News.

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