The classes in the secondary technique 1 Zacatecas remain suspended, after it became known that three students of the campus took photos of hundreds of their classmates, and manipulated them with Intelligence Artificial (IA) to create a pornographic catalog that they published, first in WhatsAppthen in Instagram and hosted them on a server Google.
Parents of some of the 400 victims They demand justice for their children, victims of digital violence; Meanwhile, teachers keep the campus occupied, to protest the dismissal of the director Juan Carlos N, and the social worker, Magdalena de la Luz N, who are accused of negligence and omission.
According to some of the complaints filed with the Prosecutor’s Office of Zacatecasone of the young men identified took photos of his companions and with IA He modified them so that they appeared naked and in explicit sexual poses. Each one was saved with the student’s name and grade.
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The Prosecutor’s Office of Zacatecas An investigation was opened and investigative police interviewed one of the young men identified, from whom a cell phone with pornographic content was confiscated.
Around 400 students affected by images altered with AI
This Monday, parents held a mobilization on campus to demand immediate actions and the intervention of the educational and judicial authorities.
Alicia Villagrán, mother of one of the students, said that she received a call from her daughter, who, through tears, told her that photographs of her were circulating on a pornography page.
“I came to pick up my daughter, the director did not show his face to us, they hid those responsible for having done all this (…) right now in the Prosecutor’s Office there are already about 100 complaints because there are many girls and boys affected,” he added.
It is not an isolated case
In October 2023, Diego N, a Polytechnic student, was accused of stealing photos from social networks and altering them to sell them as explicit content on the Internet.
During the investigations, a tablet was found with 166 thousand altered images and 20 thousand photographic videos; at least 40 percent of Poli students.
Last May he was sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of human trafficking in the form of storage of child pornography.