students of Corinth Middle School deepfake (Mar 2025)

A former Mississippi middle school teacher, Wilson Jones (30), is facing federal charges for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse videos of his students. He resigned from Corinth Middle School last fall after the videos were discovered. Investigators have identified at least eight underage victims. School officials were alerted to inappropriate content on Jones' computer in November by a security application. They reported this to the Mississippi Department of Education in January, leading to an investigation by police and the FBI. Jones was arrested on March 12th and charged with production and possession of morphed images of child sexual abuse. He was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond with GPS monitoring.