A Kissimmee man thought his Snapchat account was invisible to law enforcement.
He had no idea Florida was already building a 100-count felony case against him.
And Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just hit a child predator with 100 felony counts and sued the AI company that made it easier.
100 Counts. One Suspect. Snapchat Was Just the Beginning.
A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flagged the account.
Detectives with the Osceola County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit secured their subpoenas and search warrants.
What they found on Jerry Jesus Reyes, 26, was a massive digital cache – child sexual abuse material and videos of sexual activity with animals.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's Office of Statewide Prosecution answered with 100 felony counts.
One count alone – transmission of child pornography by an electronic device – carries a mandatory five-year minimum prison term as a second-degree felony.
Reyes also faces dozens of first-degree felony counts for possessing 10 or more images, the threshold that triggers Florida's enhanced volume penalties.
He's sitting in Osceola County Jail on a $100,000 bond, barred from internet access and contact with minors.
If convicted on all counts, he's looking at decades in state prison.
Florida Is Going After the Companies Too
The Reyes case is the criminal half of what Uthmeier announced Wednesday.
The civil half is something prosecutors across the country have been slow to attempt: suing the company that built the tool.
Rengstorff Consulting Ltd. operates the A2E platform – an AI system that markets "nudification" applications allowing users to upload photographs of real people, including minors, and produce realistic explicit imagery.
The software goes further than that.
It includes tools letting users digitally de-age adult images into underage likenesses engaged in sexual acts.
Under Florida law, creating, possessing, or transmitting AI-generated child sexual abuse material is already a criminal offense.
A2E had a formal terms-of-service prohibition on exactly this conduct.
It didn't matter.
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State attorneys say the platform ran effectively without restriction – no age verification at the door, no moderation of what users produced, no mechanism to flag illegal material to law enforcement.
The complaint doesn't rely on theory.
Prosecutors point to criminal cases in Tampa and Tallahassee where defendants used A2E to generate illicit images of minors – and the platform never triggered a single report.
Uthmeier is seeking a permanent injunction barring Rengstorff from operating in Florida, disgorgement of profits, and civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
This Is What Accountability Looks Like
Florida's double-barrel approach – criminal charges against the predator, civil lawsuit against the platform – is exactly the model other states should be copying.
Since Uthmeier took office in February 2025, Florida has arrested more than 2,000 people accused of preying on children.
His office subpoenaed Roblox over child safety failures in late 2025.
He launched a civil investigation into Discord in March 2026.
The pattern is unmistakable: Uthmeier is building a prosecution framework that treats the entire predator supply chain as accountable – the collector, the distributor, and now the manufacturer.
The A2E lawsuit matters beyond this one company.
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AI-generated child sexual abuse material is exploding, and for years tech companies hid behind terms-of-service prohibitions they had no system to enforce.
Florida just called that bluff.
A platform that bans child abuse imagery in writing and then operates without any safeguards to prevent it isn't a good-faith actor that made an honest mistake.
It's a business model built on plausible deniability.
Uthmeier is treating it like one.
"There is nothing more evil than the sexual exploitation of children," he said Wednesday, "and anyone who possesses, shares, or creates these images is an active participant in that abuse."
That includes the companies cashing in on the tools that make it easier.
Sources:
- Florida Office of the Attorney General, Press Release, Oct. 28, 2026.
- Michelle Vecerina, "AG Uthmeier announces 100 felony counts against Kissimmee man, lawsuit against AI company over child abuse images," Florida Politics, Oct. 28, 2026.
- Florida Attorney General's Office, "Attorney General James Uthmeier Announces Historic Human Trafficking Enforcement Efforts," myfloridalegal.com, June 2, 2026.
- CBS12 News, "Florida AG says more than 2,000 accused child predators arrested since February 2025," cbs12.com, Aug. 2026.
- Florida AG's Office, "Attorney General James Uthmeier Subpoenas Roblox in Child Exploitation Investigation," thecapitolist.com, Aug. 2025.
