Louisville man facing 74 charges related to child sex abuse
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man was arrested Tuesday after admitting to police he sexually abused two victims and took photos of the abuse.
Mach Horn, 79, is facing 74 charges relating to child sex abuse, including:
- Possession of child sex abuse material
- Sexual abusing a victim under 12 years of age
- Use of a minor under 16 in a sexual performance
- Human trafficking a victim under 18 years old
- Promoting sex performance by a minor under 16 years of age
- Sodomizing a victim under 12 years of age
- Raping a victim under 12 years of age
Louisville Metro Police Department detectives began investigating Horn after receiving a report from CPS. After interviews from multiple victims, authorities determined they were sexually abused and photographed over several years, since 2020.
On Tuesday, Horn voluntarily spoke to an LMPD detective, admitting to sexually abusing the victims and taking photos of the abuse.
Horn is currently being held at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections on a $250,000 bond. He is expected in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 5.
Ypsilanti man, 75, accused of child sexually abusive activity, police say
A Ypsilanti man was arrested for possession of child sexually abusive material and using a computer to commit a crime, Michigan State Police say.
MSP said on Tuesday that 75-year-old Michael Paul Travers was arrested following an investigation that showed that he may have accessed illicit content on the internet.
A search of his residence resulted in the seizure of digital evidence, MSP says.
Travers was charged with two counts of child sexually abusive material possession and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime.
Travers was arraigned in the 14-A1 District Court of Washtenaw County on Friday.
The MSP Computer Crimes Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force announced the arrest of Travers. The investigation was initiated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the ICAC Task Force.
The MSP Computer Crimes Unit says it encourages parents to speak with their children about the safe use of the internet and provides resources to help keep children safe online.
The NCMEC provides a list of resources on its website, and the Michigan ICAC Task Force provides resources at michigan.gov/ICAC.
Any information regarding possible child sexual exploitation can be reported to the CyberTipLine.
Louisa County man sentenced to federal prison on child sex abuse material charges
Florida AG charging Kissimmee man in child sex image case, files lawsuit against AI platform
Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his Office has filed 100 felony counts, most of them involving child sexual abuse material, against a Kissimmee man.
He separately detailed a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company accused of generating nonconsensual sexualized images from photographs of real people.
Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution is charging Jerry Jesus Reyes, 26, with multiple counts of possessing and transmitting child sexual abuse material, along with materials depicting sexual activity with animals.
Uthmeier said authorities were alerted by a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about activity on Snapchat. Detectives with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit traced Reyes’ account.
The charges include multiple counts of unlawful possession of materials depicting sexual performance by a child, multiple counts of unlawful possession of materials depicting sexual activity with animals and one count of transmitting child pornography by electronic device. The sexual activity with animals allegedly involved a dog.
“You got to be pretty messed up to do that,” Uthmeier said in a news conference Wednesday, adding the images were “egregious, inhumane videos. Just sick stuff.”
In the civil case, Uthmeier filed suit against A2E, an AI website owned by Nevada-based Rengstorff Consulting. The 26-page lawsuit says the platform offers “nudification,” letting users turn real photos or videos into AI-generated nude and sexualized images and videos, including of children.
“The complaint cites specific Florida criminal cases in which A2E was used to generate child sexual abuse material, including a Tampa case in which a perpetrator created more than 100 sexualized images of his minor stepchildren and a Tallahassee case involving AI-generated depictions of minors. In these instances, the platform did not flag or report the materials,” an Uthmeier news release said.
The suit seeks an injunction barring Rengstorff Consulting from offering AI products that let users create nonconsensual sexualized images or child sexual abuse material, along with civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It was filed in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Sarasota County.
The charges against Reyes are allegations, and he is presumed innocent unless convicted.
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