A California man has been arrested for possessing and extorting child pornography and other disturbing content as part of his role in the violent online network 764, which aims to accelerate the “downfall of the current world order,” according to the feds. Jose Henry Ayala Casamiro was taken int o custody by the FBI on allegations that he “caused minors to produce child sexual abuse material,” as well as content “depicting themselves engaging in self-harm,” the Justice Department announced Friday. According to court documents, the 28-year-old suspect had been a member of 764, a transnational group described as a “network of nihilistic violent extremists” who share a common purpose of “accelerat[ing] social unrest.” Among the group’s criminal activity, they’re accused of specifically targeting children to further their goals of “destroying civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations.” Alaya’s role in the network allegedly included blackmailing underage girls into creating videos “depicting themselves engaging in degrading sadistic sexual acts, torture sessions and carving their abusers’ initials or names on their bodies,” the feds said. A March 2020 photo submitted into evidence against Ayala appears to show one victim with “Henry” carved into their forearm. Members of the organization have also been accused of pressuring young girls to commit suicide, the feds said, though it’s unclear if Ayala was linked to any of those incidents. Alaya, who lives in the San Fernando Valley, made his first court appearance on Thursday and is expected to be arraigned in L.A. federal court on April 22. He’s being held without bond. His arrest comes three weeks after another 764 member, 19-year-old John Rocker, was sentenced to a seven-year prison term after he pleaded guilty to possessing child sex abuse material in Florida. Rocker too was accused of being part of the movement, which strives to “bring about [society’s] collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction and social instability.” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson warned parents last week about “the increasing presence of an online gore trend,” perpetrated by groups like 764, that coerce minors into generating toxic content. Such groups seek materials that include “cutting, blood signs, child sexual abuse material, sextortion, bestiality, the torture or killing of animals and documented suicide,” the attorney general said. ...read more read less