AUSTIN (KXAN) — In March 2025, Austin Police allegedly found more than 365,000 images of child sexual abuse material on the devices of Carl Innmon, then a fifth grade teacher at Baranoff Elementary in the Austin Independent School District.

According to police affidavits, pictures of two Baranoff students were found among the evidence. Police allege that Innmon altered the images with artificial intelligence to make them explicit. KXAN reached out to Innmon's attorneys, but they declined to comment on the case.

Kathryn Rifenbark serves as the Director of the CyberTipline in the Exploited Children Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

She said AI-generated child exploitation is accompanying the already "huge increase" in the online enticement and sex

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