The mother, Dorota Mani, has expressed her frustration with the school's handling of the situation, stating that the school's administration "mishandled" the incident. She also criticized the school for interviewing the suspects without their parents present, making their statements inadmissible in court. Mani and her daughter are now lobbying for legislative action to make the creation and distribution of such images a federal crime.
Key takeaways:
- A mother of a New Jersey high school student has claimed that boys who created and shared deepfake pornographic images of her daughter have not faced significant punishment.
- The mother and daughter have been lobbying for regulation of non-consensual deepfake images at both the state and federal levels, and were invited to President Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union address as guests of Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ).
- The mother, Dorota Mani, has expressed frustration with the school's handling of the incident, stating that the boys' statements were unusable in court due to them being interviewed without their parents present.
- Mani has hired outside lawyers to propose revisions to the district’s cyber harassment policies, which she believes are outdated as they lack any reference to the threat of deepfake imagery.