The Police say they are satisfied that no “contact offences” occurred at Ballakermeen High School after a teacher was found to be making indecent images of students.
Liam Taylor, who now lives in the UK, used his position to gain non explicit images of students which he used AI to turn into pseudo indecent images.
Isle of Man Today has reported that the incidents happened last year and involved 43 images that were found on his computer.
Detective Inspector Nick Haxby from the Protecting Vulnerable People Investigation (PVPI) team said: “Liam Taylor, has pleaded guilty to a number of offences relating to the making and possession of Prohibited and Indecent Pseudo images of children.
“The defendant at the time was a teacher at Ballkermeen High School, where he abused his position of trust in order to obtain a number of non-indecent images of students.
“These images were adapted using Artificial Intelligence resulting in the charges for which he has now pleaded guilty under the Sexual Offences and Obscene Publication Act 2021.
“My team and officers from the Digital Evidence Unit (DEU) have worked with the Department of Education, Sport & Culture and a thorough investigation has been conducted.
“As a result of the investigation, we are satisfied that no contact offences have been committed by the defendant on any of the students affected by his actions.”
Taylor will be sentenced at the Court of General Gaol Delivery later this year.
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