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The Centennial Ridge Drive resident was charged by the Pennsylvania State Police's Computer Crimes Unit
A Hilltown man accused of sharing and uploading child sexual abuse materials to Twitter, Facebook and OpenAI moved all charges against him to Bucks County Common Pleas Court at a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Jacob Cortes, 25, of the 40th block of Centennial Ridge Drive, was charged in October by Pennsylvania State Police’s Computer Crimes Unit with eight offenses: Felony counts of criminal use of a communications device, disseminating photos and films of child sex acts, possession of child sexual abuse materials, and manufacture, delivery or possession of controlled substances, and an associated conspiracy charge, and misdemeanor counts of cocaine possession, use of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a small amount of marijuana, according to charging documents.
According to the criminal complaint, Twitter, known as X, made a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of two files depicting images or videos of child pornography that were uploaded to its server by a user on Nov. 4, 2024. Twitter’s data included the username, IP address and phone number of the user, police said.
Then, OpenAI, which oversees the generative AI programs ChatGPT and Sora, made a report to NCMEC that two files of child sexual abuse materials were uploaded to its server on July 28, 2025, providing the username, email and other ID to authorities, police said.
On Aug. 22, 2025, a subpoena from the state Attorney General was prepared and served on Google for subscriber information related to the email address provided by OpenAI, police said. The same day, Google provided data to investigators, which showed the user as Cortes, along with his email, full name, recovery email and recovery phone number, police said.
Further research led authorities to find Cortes’s driver license, address, and employer.
On Oct. 22, 2025, authorities conducted a search warrant at Cortes’s home, where, after an interview with police, he allegedly admitted to downloading and sharing CSAM, mainly via Telegram.
“Cortes related that he’s been looking at child pornography videos and images for over 10 years and should have around 100 files saved on his phone,” police said in the criminal complaint. Investigators then found those alleged materials on the phone.
During the search, authorities also found about a kilogram of suspected cocaine, a digital scale, a vacuum sealer machine and a small amount of suspected marijuana, police said.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
