Mon Oct 2, 2023 – 5:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The FBI has issued an advisory about a newly discovered “violent” Satanic group targeting vulnerable children online.
On September 12, the federal agency released a public service announcement warning Americans “of violent online groups deliberately targeting minor victims on publicly available messaging platforms to extort them into recording or live-streaming acts of self-harm and producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).”
“These groups use threats, blackmail, and manipulation to control the victims into recording or live-streaming self-harm, sexually explicit acts, and/or suicide,” the announcement continues. “The footage is then circulated among members to extort victims further and exert control over them.”
The groups reportedly “use many names, including 676, 764, CVLT, Court, Kaska, Harm Nation, Leak Society and H3II.” Most groups require “prospective members … to live-stream or upload videos depicting their minor victim harming animals or committing self-harm, suicide, murder or other acts of violence.”
The FBI noted that prime targets of these groups are kids between the ages of 8 and 17 as well as those struggling with gender confusion, depression, and suicidality. Blackmail and threats of doxing victims “if they do not comply with
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