High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS), a private K-12 school in Pennsylvania, is asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by victims who claim the school stayed silent for months while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates. The school argues it did report to law enforcement because the tip came from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, and it had no duty to report AI images as child abuse under state law. Attorney Rory Connaughton of Saxton Stump said, "it is impossible to assert that the school failed to report to law enforcement when law enforcement provided the tip to the school and the school reported back to law enforcement.

One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-failed-to-report-ai-nudes-of-kids-for-months-now-parents-are-suing/ of female classmates is now asking a court to toss a lawsuit filed by victims who claimed that the school stayed silent for months while the emboldened boys targeted many more girls. In a motion to dismiss https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Does-v-Lancaster-Country-Day-School-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf this week, Lancaster Country Day School LCDS —a private K-12 school in Pennsylvania with fewer than 600 students—argued that it was false to say the school never reported the harm to law enforcement. The tip that the school received came from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, which is itself a law enforcement agency, the filing said. It’s also false to say the school knew that girls were being targeted, the school argued, because the tip did not mention any specific student victims. LCDS said that “it looked into the tip as best as their educator training allowed,” but the tip only identified one bad actor and was too vague to identify any potential victims. At no time did the school see the images, and the school maintains that all activity connected to the AI nudes happened off-campus. Instead of warning all parents that inappropriate AI-generated images were potentially being made, the school only interviewed the boy accused of making the image and his mother. The boy has since pled guilty with another male student https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/as-teens-await-sentencing-for-nudifying-girls-parents-aim-to-sue-school/ but at the time denied making the AI nudes, and the mother provided no more information. Ultimately, LCDS closed its investigation and shared results with the attorney general, then never heard back. In its motion to dismiss, the school argued that it had no duty to report the images to local police because it’s only required to report tips on actual child abuse, and AI images don’t qualify as that in the state, at least not yet. An attorney representing the school, Rory Connaughton of Saxton Stump, told Ars that “it is impossible to assert that the school failed to report to law enforcement when law enforcement provided the tip to the school and the school reported back to law enforcement.”