A 44-year-old man suspected of possessing child sexual abuse material has been indicted in the first case of its kind to be charged by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
Chandler police began investigating the suspect, William Powderly, after receiving a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
He was found to have numerous images of child sexual abuse material, including two “where AI was used to swap a real child victim’s face onto sexually explicit images of another young female,” an MCAO release stated.
