New Orleans teacher facing new deepfake charges - WDSU

Summary

Benoit G. Cransac, a former teacher at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana, faces 60 new counts of unlawful deepfakes involving photos of teenage girls from social media, added to existing charges including 22 counts of child sexual abuse material and 17 counts of video voyeurism of a child under 17. Arrested in January 2025 and rearrested on March 23, 2025, Cransac, a French national with U.S. legal residency, remains jailed with a total bond of over $8 million. The investigation, initiated in August 2025 after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, involved Google-identified files linked to Cransac’s email and an IP address traced to his wife’s Cox Communications account. Isidore Newman School stated it is cooperating with authorities but disclosed no identities of the victims in the deepfakes. Court records indicate additional images and a video were found in Cransac’s account beyond the initial report.