Leader pleads guilty to exploitation

Prasan Nepal, twenty-one, also known as Trippy, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to sexually exploit minors through the 764 network.

How the network operated

For nearly four years, Nepal led 764 as a nihilistic violent extremist network that engaged in coordinated efforts to exploit minors, extort vulnerable victims, and inflict psychological harm across the United States and abroad.

Methods of abuse and control

Nepal used encrypted apps to force minors to engage in self-mutilation, sexual acts, harm to animals, exploitation of siblings, violence, threats, suicide, and murder through rules required to join the network.

Scale of the investigation

ABC News reported in May that the FBI was conducting two hundred fifty investigations tied to seven sixty four and similar networks. In six months since, the FBI opened at least one hundred more investigations.

Victims and sentencing ahead

Nepal exploited at least eight minors as young as thirteen. He faces between fifteen and thirty years in prison and is expected to be sentenced in May twenty twenty-seven.

“This case exposes a world where cruelty is currency, violence is entertainment, and children are treated as targets in a game of domination and control.”