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The technology to make deep fake videos and use those videos to cyberbully people, as a Chalfont woman is accused of doing to three cheerleaders who were part of the same cheerleading group as her daughter, is available to anyone with a smartphone, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub warned during a March 15 press conference about the case. All one needs to do is download an app and you re off to the races. You can make deep fakes to your heart s content, he said. Raffaela Spone, 50, is charged with three counts of cyber harassment and three counts of harassment in the case.
A Pennsylvania judge Friday abruptly ordered all children at a county juvenile detention center transferred to another facility after receiving a startling letter detailing horrific physical, psychological, and sexual abuse at the facility.
Delaware County Public Defender Christopher Welsh sent the letter to the county on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer said, and it contains affidavits from former and current staff and descriptions of pest infestations, times in winter without heat, and deficient meals.
In one of the most egregious claims, a staff member at the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center reported that “a child with severe mental illness tried to asphyxiate herself by swallowing clothing,” Welsh wrote. “After staff intervened and cleared the clothes, the girl was thirsty and asked for water.”