DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) A Bucks County, Pennsylvania mother allegedly sent deepfake photos and video of her teenage daughter s cheerleading rivals to their coaches in a bid to get them kicked off the team.
Investigators say 50-year-old Raffaela Spone was trying to get the girls kicked off the Victory Vipers, in Chalfont.
Spone is accused of manipulating photos from the social media accounts of three girls to make it look like they were drinking and smoking, and even digitally altered them to make the girls appear naked. The suspect is alleged to have taken a real picture and edited it through some photoshopping app to make it look like this teenaged girl had no clothes on to appear nude, when in reality that picture was a screengrab from the teenager s social media in which she had a bathing suit on, said Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.
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Cue central casting and just call the made-for-TV Lifetime movie The Cheerleading Mom from Hell?
A real-life Pennsylvania mom is being accused of sending deepfake photos and video of her high school daughter’s cheerleading rivals to teammates and coaches, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The newspaper reports the Bucks County District Attorney office says the photos showed the cheerleaders naked, drinking and smoking and was an orchestrated effort to get them kicked off the Chalfont, Pa. team known as the Victory Vipers.
A Pennsylvania mother has been accused of creating fake and doctored images of her daughter’s cheerleading rivals, falsely showing the teens nude, drinking, and smoking in an attempt to get them kicked off the cheerleading squad, according to authorities.
A Pennsylvania mother allegedly sent deepfake photos and video of her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals depicting them naked, drinking and smoking to their coaches in a bid to get them kicked off the team, police said.