Corinth School District Superintendent Fired after Discovery of AI-Generated Child Pornography

Lee Childress, the superintendent of Corinth School District, has been fired in the wake of an AI-generated child pornography discovery.

According to WTVA, the Corinth School Board unanimously approved the firing of Superintendent Lee Childress on Monday, March 17th.

The news of Childress’s firing was announced by Benton County attorney Tony Farese.

The dismissal of Childress from his position stems from the recently uncovered case and arrest of former Corinth teacher, thirty year old Wilson F. Jones.

Jones has been accused of using artificial intelligence, or AI, to generate child pornography of students in the school district. The eight girls, aged fourteen to sixteen, whose images were used did not participate in the sexual acts depicted.

Court documents stated that school administrators first learned of the alleged crime in November 2024, and Jones was allowed to resign from his position. He was then employed as a child protective services employee until his arrest in March 2025.

Although school adminstrators learned of Jones’s alleged activity in November, it appears that law enforcement officials were not informed until late February. This lack of action on the school administrators’ part caused outrage for parents in the community, and a call for action.

Parents, as well as Farese, called for Childress to be fired in a school board meeting that took place on Thursday, March 13th.

Farese represents the families of the majority of the children whose images were allegedly used in the AI-generalted sexually explicit content.

More will be released as it becomes available.