In a groundbreaking development, cutting-edge AI technology has been utilised to apprehend a registered sex offender who was viewing indecent images of children. Thomas Young, a 34-year-old individual, was caught red-handed when e-safe global software was installed on his phone. This software was designed to capture and screenshot any activity that artificial intelligence deemed suspicious or concerning.

On 15 March, the software logged two indecent category C images, and just three days later, it detected four more along with one image classified in category A – the most serious category – involving a girl aged between 12 and 14 years old. Disturbingly, all of these images had been accessed through the Telegram application.

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