A 26-year-old Kissimmee man is facing 100 felony charges after Florida's Attorney General said investigators traced a tip about a Snapchat account back to him, uncovering files that included alleged child sexual abuse material. The case against Jerry Jesus Reyes was announced the same day the state also filed a separate civil lawsuit against the operator of an artificial intelligence platform accused of enabling the creation of nonconsensual sexualized images of children.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the charges against Reyes, who is accused of possessing and transmitting child sexual abuse material, according to CBS12. The investigation began after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent a CyberTipline report flagging activity on a Snapchat account, Uthmeier's office said. From there, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit used subpoenas and search warrants to connect that account to Reyes, per the state's account of the case.
What Investigators Say They Found
Investigators reported finding files depicting the sexual abuse of young children, as well as videos depicting sexual activity involving a person and an animal, according to the state's announcement. Additional evidence uncovered during the probe led prosecutors to expand the charges against Reyes. The resulting counts include transmission of child sexual abuse material by electronic device, possession of materials depicting a child's sexual performance, and possession of material depicting sexual activity with animals, the station reported.
Florida reclassified the possession charges as first-degree felonies because the investigation involved 10 or more images, according to the same report. Under Florida Statutes § 827.071, the possession, control, solicitation, or intentional viewing of each photograph, image, depiction, or presentation constitutes a separate offense, which helps explain how a single case can generate 100 counts. Separately, Florida Statutes § 847.0137 makes knowingly transmitting child sexual abuse material to another person a second-degree felony carrying a mandatory minimum of five years in prison for an adult convicted under that provision.
Bond, Release Conditions and What Comes Next
Accounts of Reyes's bond differ. CBS12 reported he is being held in the Osceola County Jail on $100,000 bond, while ClickOrlando reported his bond at $1.3 million. Whatever the figure, his release conditions reportedly include no internet access and no contact with minors, per the earlier CBS12 report. Uthmeier's office says Reyes could face decades in prison if convicted as charged, though he is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court, and the investigation remains ongoing.
Separate Lawsuit Targets AI Image Platform
In a case the state says is unconnected to the Reyes prosecution, Uthmeier also sued Rengstorff Consulting Ltd., which operates the A2E artificial intelligence platform and related mobile apps. The complaint alleges A2E lets users upload photos or videos of people, including children, and generate realistic nude or sexualized images without consent, and that the platform can digitally de-age adults to resemble children in sexual images, per the state's filing as described by CBS12.
The complaint further alleges A2E lacks meaningful safeguards such as monitoring, consent verification, account termination, and law-enforcement reporting. It cites criminal cases in Tampa and Tallahassee in which defendants allegedly used the platform to create sexualized images of minors, and claims the platform did not flag or report that material. The state is asking a court to permanently bar Rengstorff Consulting from offering products that allow the creation or sharing of illegal, nonconsensual sexual images, while also seeking repayment of profits and civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
The state's announcement did not allege any connection between Reyes's criminal case and the lawsuit against Rengstorff Consulting, treating the two actions as distinct matters filed on the same day.
A Fast-Growing Problem Nationally
The Kissimmee case and the A2E lawsuit arrive amid a documented surge in AI-related exploitation reports. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received roughly 36.2 million CyberTipline reports in 2023, including about 4,700 flagged as involving generative artificial intelligence, according to the National Association of Attorneys General. By 2025, that number had jumped to 400,000 reports involving generative AI, including more than 182,000 deemed actionable, the group reported. Investigators have noted that perpetrators are increasingly using AI to create entirely new images that can evade hashing algorithms designed to catch known material.
The Internet Watch Foundation assessed 8,029 AI-generated images and videos in 2025 as showing realistic child sexual abuse, and identified 3,443 AI-generated abuse videos that year alone — a 26,385% increase over 2024. Of those videos, 65% were classified in the most severe category, and girls made up 97% of the illegal AI-generated images the organization assessed.
Comparable prosecutions elsewhere illustrate how unsettled the legal landscape remains. The Justice Department charged Wisconsin resident Steven Anderegg in 2024 with producing, distributing, and possessing thousands of AI-generated explicit images of children, a case that began after Meta sent NCMEC a CyberTip, according to The Daily Record. Production and distribution charges against Anderegg remain pending, but a federal appeals court judge separately ruled that the First Amendment protects private possession of AI-generated abuse images when they do not depict a real person and stay in the home, a decision the outlet described as a sign the law is struggling to keep pace with the technology. A federal complaint filed in New Jersey in late 2025 made similar allegations against the developers of the ClothOff app, per the attorneys general association, accusing them of soliciting users to create hyper-realistic nude images of children without consent.
