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Jujuy Judge Keeps 19-Year-Old in Preventive Detention in AI-Backed Scholarship Scam Case

Prosecutors continue forensic analysis of seized devices to determine possible production of child sexual abuse material, seeking to identify additional victims.

Overview

  • Federal prosecutors charged G.F.F., 19, with aggravated sex trafficking and possession of child sexual abuse material after three students were lured to San Salvador de Jujuy.
  • Investigators say the suspect built a fake scholarship program using AI tools, including ChatGPT, creating websites, flyers and documents that cited the Jujuy Government House to gain credibility.
  • The victims, two of them minors from Santa Fe, arrived on September 22 and later found a hidden camera with a microphone inside a bathroom clock at an apartment in Alto Padilla.
  • Police recovered the device after the suspect allegedly threw it from a patrol car; a preliminary exam found 15 videos and 68 photos of the victims along with additional child abuse material.
  • Judge Eduardo Hansen ordered a 90-day preventive detention on October 28 at the request of prosecutor Federico Zurueta, citing risk to the investigation as multiple phones, drives, a computer and a tablet undergo expanded forensic review.