GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah — A 20-year-old employee at a Garfield County elementary school has been arrested after police say he was caught producing and altering child sexual abuse material with AI.
Dallen Benjamin Platt, 20, was arrested on May 14 and faces charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual abuse of a child, and sexual exploitation of a minor. He is being held without bail.
According to court documents, a company filed a CyberTipline report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding an account that had uploaded files of child sexual abuse material. An IP address and phone number were also reported for the account.
On May 14, investigators executed a search warrant on Platt's residence. During the search, Platt admitted to owning the reported account and manufacturing the child sexual abuse material of a toddler and family member.
Platt told detectives that he had been sending the files to a 13-year-old girl living in Texas. Platt also had allegedly received files of child sexual abuse material from the girl in Texas.
Police say on Platt's phone they found dozens of images of children taken at his work at a local elementary school. Platt told investigators that the images were taken without the childrens' knowledge and that he used AI to manipulate at least one of the images to make the child appear naked.
Detectives say that during their conversations with Platt, he admitted that his cycle of sexual abuse is escalating and that he had sexually abused a child within the last week.
