As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

Two 16-year-old boys at Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania admitted this month to using AI tools to create sexually explicit deepfake images of 48 female classmates and 12 other young women, generating at least 347 images and videos total. The school learned of the abuse through an anonymous tip but waited six months to notify parents or police, during which time the number of victims grew substantially. The teens face sentencing this week, but families are pursuing litigation against the school over its delayed response despite having no legal obligation to act immediately at the time. The case represents one of the earliest known high school deepfake scandals in the U.S. and underscores both the emerging threat of AI-generated sexual abuse material and schools' vulnerability to liability gaps in handling such incidents.