A vile sex offender who used AI to create indecent sexualised images of children to satisfy his depraved desires has been jailed for four years. Bald Adam Evans, 51, refused to answer police questions in interview after he was snared for making the sick content which officers described as “so realistic” that it looked real.
Sex offender Evans, from Harlow, Essex, is subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order after being convicted of attempting to arrange/facilitate the commission of a child sexual offence and attempting to cause/incite a child to engage in sexual activity in October 2019.
In September 2025, the Essex Police Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) team were alerted via risk management software on his device that indecent images had been accessed via an AI application.
A total of 13 pseudo indecent images of children had been accessed, and these were described by officers as being “so realistic” that they could reasonably be perceived as depicting real children.
The 51-year-old was swiftly arrested by officers from Harlow local policing team. Following a through search a device, not registered as he was legally obliged to do, was also discovered and seized.
He refused to answer any questions in interview, but when he appeared at a Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday October 6, 2025, he pleaded guilty to nine counts of making indecent photograph/pseudo photograph of a child.
He was remanded in custody and on Friday May 15 and at the same court Evans, of Jerounds, was sentenced to seven years. He was jailed for four years and a further three years on extended licence.
In a statement after Evans was sentenced, MOSOVO officer Jai Rivers said: “Using AI to make indecent images of children is a criminal offence and Evans has rightly been sentenced for his offending.
“This depraved act of using AI is treated just as seriously as using actual photographs.
“Offenders who are thinking of engaging with this type of activity will be caught and face the full consequences of their actions.
“And alongside ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice, it is vital everyone understands what to do if they come across an intimate deepfake image.
“Our partnership with BT and EE offers practical advice on AI and provides you with a simple tool to report and remove fake explicit images.”