'GentlemanPervert': NJ Deputy AG Charged in AI Abuse Case
The man arrested on Thursday for allegedly generating child sex abuse images with artificial intelligence wasn't hiding in some anonymous corner of the internet. Well — he was doing that too. But by day, Brian Richard Fitzgerald, 51, was a Deputy Attorney General for the state of New Jersey. The people who prosecute crimes like this one have just arrested one of their own. Fitzgerald was taken into custody on the morning of October 15, 2026, at his home in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, following a joint investigation by Bucks County Detectives and the Lower Makefield Township Police Department. The district attorney's office announced the arrest the same day. He faces three felony counts: possession of child sexual abuse material, dissemination of photos or film depicting child sexual abuse, and criminal use of a communication facility. According to investigators, Fitzgerald did his alleged generating and sharing on Discord, under the username thege...