4 members of a neo-Nazi group have been arrested and charged with grooming and extorting greater than a dozen kids to supply pornographic materials and pictures of self-harm, authorities introduced Thursday.
Sixteen kids from around the globe, together with two minors in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, have been victims of the neo-Nazi group, based on the grand jury indictment.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Los Angeles Police Division are among the many companies investigating the matter.
“Sextortion and different types of on-line little one sexual abuse have tragically altered the trajectory of too many younger lives and this group preyed upon the susceptible to satisfy their sick and twisted wishes,” mentioned Homeland Safety Investigations Los Angeles Particular Agent Eddy Wang.
The 4 males are accused of participating within the on-line little one sexual exploitation group that promoted neo-Nazism, pedophilia and nihilism, which is the idea that life is meaningless.
Collin John Thomas Walker, 23, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii, have been arrested Thursday morning and have been charged with one rely of participating in a baby exploitation enterprise.
Rohan Sandeep Rane, 28, of Antibes, France, and Kaleb Christopher Merritt, 24, of Spring, Texas have been already in custody and are additionally charged within the 19 web page indictment with one rely of participating in a baby exploitation enterprise.
In keeping with the indictment, the group trafficked little one pornography and made the kids interact in dehumanizing acts, together with chopping and consuming their very own hair, consuming their urine, punching themselves, calling themselves racial slurs, and utilizing razor blades to carve CVLT members’ names into their pores and skin.
CVLT members’ coercion escalated to pressuring victims to kill themselves on a video livestream. If the victims hesitated or threatened to inform their mother and father or authorities, the group threatened to distribute their already-obtained compromising photos to their family and friends.
They groomed kids to supply the pornographic materials by varied methods of degradation, together with exposing them to extremist and violent content material.
Rane was beforehand charged with a number of exploitation and associated offenses in France and has been in French custody since 2022.
Merritt is at present in Virginia state custody, serving a 50-year sentence for little one intercourse abuse crimes dedicated in 2020 and 2021.
“The defendants listed here are alleged to have dedicated horrific acts towards kids,” mentioned Appearing United States Lawyer Joseph T. McNally. “There may be nothing extra vital than defending our youth. Our workplace will proceed its effort to aggressively prosecute and incarcerate harmful predators.”
If convicted, the defendants might face a 20-year necessary minimal sentence and a statutory most sentence of life in jail.
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