A Tampa man used an AI app to generate over 100 sexually explicit images of his 6-year-old stepdaughter and 10-year-old stepson.
The app that made it possible is still running.
But Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just filed a lawsuit that could shut down the AI platform that turned photos of children into pornography.
The Platform That Called It "Strictly Prohibited" While Cashing the Checks
The company behind the A2E platform is called Rengstorff Consulting – a Nevada firm that thought hiding behind a state border would protect it.
It won't.
A2E markets what are called "nudification" apps.
You upload a photograph of a real person.
The software strips their clothes off and generates a realistic explicit image.
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That's the product.
And according to Uthmeier's 26-page complaint filed in Sarasota County Circuit Court, predators across Florida have been using it on children.
The Tampa man who created those images of his own stepchildren is just one case the suit references.
Investigators in Tallahassee uncovered another.
In both cities, defendants used A2E to produce sexual images of minors – and in both cities, the platform never flagged the activity.
Never intervened.
A2E's response to all of this? Their terms of service say nonconsensual use is "strictly prohibited."
Uthmeier had the right answer for that: "Just because you create the vehicle, it doesn't give you exemption from liability."
So while users might be providing images, at the end of the day, this AI software, this is the manufacturing hub that is actually churning out the child porn content. So we want to make them pay. We want to shut them down,” Uthmeier added.
The Feature That Should Land Executives in a Cell
Here is the detail that takes this from bad to unconscionable.
A2E didn't just let predators upload photos of children.
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The platform included a feature – a deliberate, engineered feature – to digitally "de-age" adult subjects in sexual images to make them appear to be children.
This wasn't a bug.
This wasn't a user’s misuse of an innocent tool.
Someone sat down and built a child exploitation function into a commercial product, named it, marketed it, and collected subscription revenue from it.
That is the "manufacturing hub" Uthmeier described: a company that industrialized the production of child sexual abuse material and then pointed at its terms of service when investigators showed up.
The lawsuit invokes Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, but Uthmeier made clear this isn't just a consumer protection case.
His office is investigating criminal charges.
“If Defendant’s business practices are not ‘deceptive,’ ‘unfair,’ or–above all–despicably and utterly ‘unconscionable’ under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, what is? They must be stopped,” Uthmeier wrote.
This Is What Happens When Regulators Move Faster Than Congress
While other states have spent three years writing letters to Congress and sending formal demands to tech companies, Uthmeier has been filing lawsuits.
Letters.
Formal demands.
More letters.
He sued OpenAI in June.
He targeted Roblox and Discord.
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And now he's going after a Nevada shell company that thought it could manufacture child sexual abuse material from a distance and hide behind user agreements.
The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction, restitution, and disgorgement of every dollar A2E made from this product.
That's the right call – because the pattern is always the same: the platform builds the tool, pockets the revenue, calls itself a neutral technology provider, and leaves law enforcement to deal with the children whose images ended up as products.
Florida just decided the platform is the crime scene, and that legal theory should spread to every state that hasn't figured it out yet.
Sources:
- "AG Uthmeier Announces 100 Felony Counts Against Kissimmee Man, Lawsuit Against AI Company Over Child Abuse Images," Florida's Voice, October 28, 2026.
- "Florida AG announces 100 felony charges against Kissimmee man, sues AI firm," CBS12, October 28, 2026.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, civil complaint against Rengstorff Consulting Ltd., Sarasota County Circuit Court, October 28, 2026.
- "Grok Deepfake Lawsuits: Baltimore, Class-Action Minors, and 35 Attorneys General Take on xAI," The Planet Tools, May 24, 2026.
