764 Terror Network Member Richard Densmore Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

In the government’s sentencing memorandum, national prosecutors asked that Densmore person for the maximum 30-year punishment for his relation successful creating and starring “online chat rooms wherever children were encouraged to chopped themselves, bleed for members, and publically prosecute successful depraved intersexual acts.”

Prior authorities filings amusement Densmore ran a 764-adjacent server called “S3wer” wherever helium hosted different 764 members and provided a abstraction to groom underage victims into sexually exploiting themselves and harming themselves for his benefit, often carving his alias into their bodies successful a signifier communal to 764 and its offshoots known arsenic “cut-signing.” According to prosecutors, immoderate victims are driven to perpetrate termination connected camera for the amusement and presumption of their exploiters, though nary precise fig of suicides connected to 764 arsenic been given.

Using excerpts of online conversations Densmore had some with his victims and different members of 764, mostly connected Discord, national prosecutors showed Densmore’s pridefulness astatine his spot of power successful 764.

In September 2022, Densmore intimidated a unfortunate into self-abuse by demonstrating helium had compromising accusation connected them and that helium ran not 1 but 2 CSAM and extortion servers. “I’m the proprietor of cultist [another 764 Discord server] and 764. I privation you to chopped for me.” The idiosyncratic responded that they did not cut, to which Densmore responded by threatening to exposure confidential accusation astir the insignificant to, “Don’t marque daddy angry. I’ll extort you. . . . I person each your information. I ain you . . . You bash what I accidental present kitten.”

In an October 2022 Discord conversations betwixt Densmore and different subordinate successful his kid maltreatment servers included by the feds successful the grounds against Densmore, helium bragged astir his exploitation methods.

“I gaslight and marque them fucked up. Then they travel me.” Densmore said. “We got a miss to chopped her ass disconnected connected cam. They termination their pets too. Most volition bash thing for power.” When a Discord idiosyncratic told Densmore that determination was nary crushed to maltreatment people, Densmore wrote, “They beg for it.”

Much of the grounds against Densmore was sealed by tribunal bid to support the identities of his victims, and due to the fact that of the shocking quality of the grounds presented against him.

“Densmore’s phones, seized during hunt warrants successful this case, incorporate immoderate of the astir heinous images and videos the undersigned counsel has had the misfortune of seeing,” adjunct US lawyer Adam Townshend wrote successful his sentencing memorandum.

The feds besides drilled down connected Densmore’s seeming delight successful his online notoriety. “Being discord celebrated isn’t each it’s cracked up to be,” helium messaged different user, successful different lawsuit lamenting “Why can’t these ppl conscionable fto maine beryllium famous.”

Prior to his indictment and arrest, Densmore was initially raided by the FBI successful February 2023, erstwhile the FBI recovered CSAM connected his devices. When raided earlier this year, the feds assertion Densmore had 2 cellphones hidden successful an aerial vent successful his bedroom. He’d besides faced charges of a intersexual discourtesy involving a insignificant successful the 1990s, according to a authorities filing from January. At 1 constituent past year, Densmore posted a video to a 764 server depicting himself burning electronics successful a metallic tube outside. ‘Bye bye evidence,” Densmore says connected the recording.