A 17-year-old boy in Calgary just used AI to turn innocent photos of his female classmates into explicit deepfakes. He…

A 17-year-old boy in Calgary just used AI to turn innocent photos of his female classmates into explicit deepfakes. He then uploaded them.
Real children were sexually violated without ever touching anyone.
This is the new face of child sexual abuse material (CSAEM). Please share this thread. 🧵(1 of 12)

ALERT@ALERT_AB · Dec 3, 2025

ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit has charged a 17-year-old student after he allegedly used artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse and exploitation material. Read more: alert-ab.ca/teen-facing-ch…

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The victims—teen girls from multiple high schools—are now in trauma counselling.
Some may never feel safe at school again.
Their images are forever weaponized.
This isn’t “bullying.”
This is sexual violence enabled by technology and enabled by weak laws.

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Under the law before October 31, 2025, this boy faced a mandatory 1-year jail sentence for making & distributing CSAEM, plus another possible 1-year for possession.
That floor sent a clear message: you do not get to sexually exploit children and walk away with probation.

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Then came Senneville (2025 SCC 33).
The Supreme Court struck down the 1-year mandatory minimum for possession of CSAEM because of a hypothetical 18-year-old who keeps a consensual sext from his 17-year-old girlfriend.
A 5-4 decision.

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That single hypothetical just removed the sentencing floor for thousands of real cases—including this Calgary horror show.
Judges now have total discretion.
Many will go light on “young offenders” who “made a mistake.”

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Imagine being one of those Calgary girls and hearing the boy who deepfaked you into porn might get… house arrest.
Or a conditional discharge. Or NOTHING. 
Because a court 3,000 km away worried about a different, hypothetical 18-year-old’s love life.

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Strong mandatory minimums are not “cruel.”
They are the only way to tell every teenager with a phone and an AI app:
If you turn a classmate into child sexual abuse material, your life changes too.
You do not get to ruin hers and live yours without consequence.

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Without that certainty, we are teaching two generations the wrong lesson:
Victims: “Your trauma is negotiable.”
Perpetrators: “Worst-case scenario is a stern talking-to.”

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Deterrence works.
After mandatory minimums were introduced in 2015, self-reported teen sextortion and revenge-porn cases dropped.
When the floor disappears, the behaviour comes roaring back—we’re already seeing it in the 54% surge in Alberta ICE files this year.

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The perpetrator is also a child.
He needed a bright red line years ago—before he pressed “generate.”
Clear, certain punishment protects him too: from becoming an adult predator, from a lifetime on the sex-offender registry, from potentially destroying his own future along with theirs.

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Canada’s federal government still has a tool: the notwithstanding clause (s. 33 of the Charter).
Invoke it.
Restore the mandatory minimums for possession, making, and distribution of CSAEM.
Table a new bill with even stronger sentences if necessary.
Do it before the next classroom is violated.

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To every victim in Calgary reading this:
This is not your fault.
We see you.
We are fighting for laws that will protect the next group of girls—and boys—from ever having to sit in your seat.
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