Tampa Man Faces 100+ Felony Charges for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tampa police arrested 30-year-old Brian Schaaf on June 8, 2025, after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flagged explicit images he had uploaded to a cloud storage network. Investigators found search histories for "AI face swap" and "NSFW AI face swap," along with AI tools used to generate or alter the material. A subsequent search warrant turned up a far larger collection than initially discovered.

Schaaf was re-arrested by the U.S. Marshals Task Force and now faces more than 100 felony counts — including solicitation or possession of child pornography and six counts of generating altered sexual depictions without consent. Investigators have not yet confirmed whether any real victims have been identified in the underlying images, a chilling open question that underscores how AI-generated CSAM complicates both prosecution and victim identification.