Trump’s DOJ Nails Alleged Ringleaders Forcing Kids Into Sex Crimes, Self-Mutilation in Depraved Abuse Ring
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it took down the alleged ringleaders of “a violent online network that seeks to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors.”
The DOJ charged Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, and Prasan Nepal, 20, for operating a child exploitation subgroup within 764, an online transnational extremist network.
Varagiannis, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Greece on Monday. Nepal was nabbed on April 22 in North Carolina.
The defendants are accused of producing and distributing sadistic child sexual abuse material in the subgroup 764 Inferno. The men allegedly groomed, manipulated, and extorted minors into producing sexual and self-harm content.
The DOJ reported, “The affidavit alleges that the group targeted vulnerable children online, coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation. This content includes ‘cut signs’ and ‘blood signs’ through which young minors would cut symbols into their bodies.” (Read more from “Trump’s DOJ Nails Alleged Ringleaders Forcing Kids Into Sex Crimes, Self-Mutilation in Depraved Abuse Ring” HERE)
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