{"id":5183,"date":"2026-09-18T02:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/michael-huseman-gets-18-years-in-ai-child-abuse-case\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:17:40","slug":"michael-huseman-gets-18-years-in-ai-child-abuse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/michael-huseman-gets-18-years-in-ai-child-abuse-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Huseman Gets 18 Years in AI Child Abuse Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> MANCHESTER, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (STL.News) Michael A. Huseman, a 32-year-old Manchester, Missouri, man whom federal investigators found possessed more than 22,000 files containing child sexual abuse material, including hundreds of files generated using artificial intelligence, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Huseman Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis after Huseman pleaded guilty in June to one count of receiving child pornography. Clark also ordered Huseman to pay $23,000 in restitution to five identified victims, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/michael-huseman-gets-18-years-in-ai-child-abuse-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (STL.News) Michael A. Huseman, a 32-year-old Manchester, Missouri, man whom federal investigators found possessed more than 22,000 files containing child sexual abuse material, including hundreds of files generated using artificial intelligence, has been sentenced&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}