Thomas Rowley, the Creswell Paedophile, employed artificial intelligence (AI) to produce several obscene still photos of minors and just received a suspended sentence thanks to the British Justice System.
Authorities discovered almost 1,900 photos on Thomas Rowley’s PC. Among them, 882 were classified as category A, indicating the most serious forms of abuse.
Furthermore, 532 category B photos and 557 category C photographs were found on Thomas Rowley’s devices.
The photos retrieved from Thomas Rowley’s two devices—his phone and computer—comprised a combination of AI-generated images based on Rowley’s prompts and illicit photographs obtained from the internet.
Thomas Rowley subsequently pleaded guilty to three charges of producing indecent pseudo-photographs of minors between 9 January 2021 and 9 January 2024.
He additionally confessed to owning 21 illicit photos of minors at the time of his arrest on 9 January 2024.
Thomas Rowley, of Old School Lane, Creswell, received a 15-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, during his appearance at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, 27 May.
The 43-year-old, Thomas Rowley, was made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order that will tightly restrict his online activities and require the offender to register any devices he uses with the police. Rowley was also placed on the sex offender’s register for the next ten years.
PC Summer Smith, of Nottinghamshire Police’s public protection team, said:
“We take these types of crimes very seriously and will always do everything we can to protect vulnerable young people and ensure that individuals involved in this sort of criminality are brought to justice.
“This depraved act involving the use of AI is treated just as severely as using actual photographs. Offenders who are thinking of engaging with this type of activity will be caught and face the full consequences of their actions.”
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