Seaford Man Gets Jail Time For Sharing 'Deep Fake' Sexual Images: DA

MINEOLA, NY — A Seaford man was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison and 10 years probation for sharing sexually explicit "deepfaked" images of more than a dozen underage girls on a pornographic website, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced.

Patrick Carey, 22, who pleaded guilty in December, also posted personal, identifying information of many of the women, Donnelly said.

"Patrick Carey targeted these women, altering images he took from their social media accounts and the accounts of their family members and manipulating them using ‘deepfake’ technology to create pornography that he disseminated across the Internet," Donnelly said. "These incredibly brave women pieced together his depraved conduct and brought it to the authorities. They were not afraid, and they were undeterred."

As part of the sentencing, Judge Robert Bogle ordered stay-away protection for each of the 14 victims that will last the statutory maximum of eight years. Carey must also register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.

From January 2021 through September 2021, according to the charges, Nassau County Police Department detectives were contacted by approximately 11 women who had discovered images of themselves on a pornographic website. Many of the women indicated that the images, taken when the women were in high school and middle school, were re-posted on the website from their own social media platforms and altered to suggest the women were engaging in sexual conduct.

Carey was arrested in Sept. 2021, after police executed nearly two dozen search warrants on Carey’s cell phone, tablets, and other social media and web accounts. The investigation revealed Carey was in possession of several images of the victims and had shared them on social media and on the pornographic website, Donnelly's office said.