Ohio man becomes first in country to be convicted under federal revenge porn law

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbus told The Columbus Dispatch that James Strahler, 37, of Upper Arlington, the first person in the nation to be convicted under a 2025 federal law for using AI-generated, sexually explicit images of women to intimidate and harass them, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Columbus to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries.

The court documents obtained by the news source also indicated that Strahler had more than 24 AI platforms and 100 AI web-based models installed or downloaded on his phone, adding that he used phone calls, messages, and online posts to harass the women.

The court records also said that between December 2024 and June 2025, Strahler sent messages to at least six adult females, including three former romantic partners, that included both real and AI-generated nude images.

In addition to creating AI images of women, he would also blackmail mothers of those women by forcing them to send him their nude photos so that he would not circulate the fake explicit images of their daughters, leave sexual assault-related voicemails to the victims, and post AI-generated pornographic images of boys being raped by their female relatives.

The Dispatch
https://www.ohio.news/stories/ohio-man-becomes-first-in-country-to-be-convicted-under-federal-revenge-porn-law/

[NJCher]

1. How does a jerk like this

Get a “romantic partner” in the first place? An image search shows his picture. Besides being a jerk, he looks like a jerk.

Second, why is Melania Trump speaking out on this issue? Source is NY post, so not linking.

[EdmondDantes_]

2. Abusers are good at hiding themselves

[Polybius]

3. Melania Trump was hugely in favor of this bill

My guess is that an ex-boyfriend has explicit pictures of her nude, and she doesn't want them getting out. This bill bans that.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. another source

More victims surfaced, including two women and their mothers, who claimed Strahler sent AI-generated sexual images and threatening texts, demanding nude images and demanding he would make images public, reportedly saying, “you have hour. Tick tok….” Other victims said he sent voicemails with heavy breathing.

A forensic search of Strahler’s phone uncovered multiple victim’s names, identifiers listed in the search terms and information about their high schools and bank accounts.

Search words found in Strahler’s phone included the words, “teen porn”, “kid porn comics”, “girl rape sex videos”, “long range spy camera wireless”, “ai porn makers using own pictures”, “post naked pictures anonymously”, “raped and beheaded porn”, “pay someone to spy”, “unethical spy for hire near Columbus”, and dozens of other search phrases that were graphically sexual in nature.

The investigation also uncovered a photo of two male minors, approximate ages 14 and 7, with their faces used on nude female bodies.

https://fox8.com/news/ohio-man-with-over-3000-ai-pornographic-images-on-phone-pleads-guilty-to-sextortion/

[Diamond_Dog]

5. No wonder more and more young women prefer to not date and stay single.

[valleyrogue]

6. Good. n/t