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Where Evil Lurks: Neo-Nazi Pedophiles

Posted on | May 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Where Evil Lurks: Neo-Nazi Pedophiles

Kaleb Merritt

In February 2021, the FBI issued an alert about a 12-year-old girl from southern Virginia who had been abducted from her home. The next day, she was found in North Carolina with Kaleb Christopher Merritt, then 21, who had traveled from Texas and set up a camp in the woods near the girl’s house where he raped her before abducting her. Merritt had first contacted the girl via Instagram, and was eventually sentenced to 350 years in prison. It turns out that the tip about Merritt had come from Discord, and authorities were alerted that Merritt was “from a group of users that go by ‘CVLT’ who extort minor women into committing self-harm and uploading their own child pornography.”

Meanwhile, in November 2020, Iowa State University Police got a call “from a student who reported she was being blackmailed by a man she met online in 2018.” That investigation led to a 41-year-old man in Hawaii and eventually “identified more than 30 victims – some as young as 11 years old – and provided evidence for Homeland Security to build its case against CVLT, the online group that espoused neo-Nazism, nihilism and pedophilia as its core principles.”

In January this year, there was a federal indictment:

Two men were arrested [January 30] on federal charges of participating in a neo-Nazi child exploitation enterprise that groomed and then coerced minors to produce child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of self-harm. The group allegedly victimized at least 16 minors around the world, including two in Southern California.
Collin John Thomas Walker, 23, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii, were arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment that charges them with one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise. They are expected to make initial court appearances later today in New Jersey and Hawaii.
The indictment charges two other defendants who are already in custody: Rohan Sandeep Rane, 28, of Antibes, France, and Kaleb Christopher Merritt, 24, of Spring, Texas. The indictment, which was returned by a grand jury on January 17 and unsealed today, also charges Rane and Walker with one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

Bradley Cadenhead

As early as January 2021, the FBI was getting tips about a group of Discord users known as “764.” The group’s name turned out to be a reference to the ZIP code of Stephensville, Texas, home of Bradley Cadenhead. Then only 15 years old, Cadenhead had dropped out of school and holed up in his bedroom where he became the leader of perhaps the most monstrous online cult ever. Some accounts describe 764 as a spinoff of the CVLT, but these are ever-shifting online aggregations that are difficult to map. Cadenhead was arrested in August 2021 and in May 2023 was sentenced to 80 years in prison. However, the 764 cult continues to make headlines:

Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as “War,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charged for operating an international child exploitation enterprise known as “764,” a nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) network. Varagiannis was arrested yesterday in Greece; Nepal was arrested on April 22, 2025, in North Carolina and had a court appearance. Court hearings in Washington, D.C. are pending for both defendants.
The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen of the Washington Field Office, and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher G. Raia of the New York Field Office.
According to the affidavit in the District of Columbia, 764 is a network of nihilistic violent extremists who engage in criminal conduct in the United States and abroad, seeking to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors. The 764 network’s accelerationist goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States Government.
As alleged, the defendants engaged in a coordinated criminal enterprise and led a core subgroup within 764 known as 764 Inferno, operated through encrypted messaging applications. As alleged, they directed, participated in, and otherwise caused the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and the defendants facilitated the grooming, manipulation, and extortion of minors. Veragiannis and Nepal allegedly ordered their victims to commit acts of self-harm and engaged in psychological torment and extreme violence against minors. 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 girls would cut symbols into their bodies.
The defendants and their co-conspirators around the world used the CSAM and other gore and violent material to create digital “Lorebooks,” which NVEs used as digital currency within the 764 network — traded, archived in encrypted “vaults,” and used as a means to recruit new members or maintain status within the network. The affidavit also details how the defendants instructed others members in grooming tactics and set content production expectations for new recruits. In multiple instances, defendants threatened and caused their victims to engage in self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings and others, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder.
Also according to the complaint affidavit, the defendants exploited at least eight minor victims across multiple jurisdictions, with some content traced back to children as young as 13 years old. The network’s activities spanned from late 2020 through early 2025, with core leadership roles attributed to both defendants throughout the period.

More information on the 764 cult here.



 

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