Flagler County deputies arrested 38-year-old Palm Coast resident Robert Ezra Lamb on Feb. 20 and booked him into the county jail on a $50,000 bond after they say he used artificial intelligence tools to generate sexualized images of a child. Investigators say Lamb uploaded five such images to an OnlyFans account and believe the files were created from photos of a girl he knew; he is now facing five felony counts connected to those images.
Investigation timeline
According to WESH, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office launched its investigation after Fenix International Limited, the company behind OnlyFans, flagged five images to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in January 2025. Deputies say detectives began formally working the case in May 2025, requested access to Lamb’s OnlyFans account in June and secured the account records on Oct. 6, 2025 while reviewing posts, messages and related metadata tied to the profile.
What investigators say the images show
As reported by FlaglerLive, the five images were watermarked with the OnlyFans handle “EzraLamb” and showed digital changes investigators say are typical of AI generation, including breasts added to a prepubescent body. The arrest report, as described in that coverage, says Lamb admitted to creating two of the files and identified the child as the daughter of an ex-girlfriend, whom he believed was about 6 to 7 years old when the source photos were taken.
Why authorities are sounding the alarm
“AI can be a positive thing in our life, but criminals always find a way to turn a positive into a negative,” Sheriff Rick Staly told WESH, emphasizing law enforcement concern about synthetic child sexual abuse material. The Internet Watch Foundation has warned that AI-generated CSAM surged in 2025, calling the technology a “child sexual abuse machine” after documenting a sharp increase in photo-realistic AI videos, a trend investigators say makes abuse harder to detect and trace back to specific offenders.
Legal status and what comes next
According to FlaglerLive, Lamb is charged with five counts of possessing generated child pornography, described in local coverage as third-degree felonies, and a judge set his bond at $50,000, based on court records and information from the sheriff’s office. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation is still active, and anyone with information is asked to contact detectives or submit a report through NCMEC’s CyberTipline.
