Alberta football coach faces sentencing for AI-generated images

Justin Tillery, a girls’ football coach in southern Alberta, is facing a sentencing hearing in Lethbridge after pleading guilty to making and possessing child pornography. The charges stem from the creation of artificially generated sexualized images of some of his players.

A Crown prosecutor has requested a two-year prison sentence for Tillery. In contrast, Tillery’s lawyer has argued that a community sentence would be sufficient. Tillery was originally charged in 2025 with making, distributing, possessing, and accessing child pornography, as well as transmitting an intimate image without consent.