{"id":22239,"date":"2025-04-30T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/violent-online-networks-leaders-dubbed-war-and-trippy-charged-over-alleged-child-exploitation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:45:16","slug":"violent-online-networks-leaders-dubbed-war-and-trippy-charged-over-alleged-child-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/violent-online-networks-leaders-dubbed-war-and-trippy-charged-over-alleged-child-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent online network&#8217;s leaders \u2014 dubbed &#8220;War&#8221; and &#8220;Trippy&#8221; \u2014 charged over alleged child exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Two leaders of what authorities described as a violent online network have been arrested and charged for allegedly operating &#8220;one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises&#8221; officials have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders, 21-year-old Leonidas Varagiannis, who is also known online as &#8220;War,&#8221; and 20-year-old Prasan Nepal, also known as &#8220;Trippy,&#8221; could spend the rest of their lives in prison for their alleged crimes, which include targeting vulnerable children online and &#8220;coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Justice Department<\/a> said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some content was traced to kids as young as 13.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegations in this case are not only disturbing, they are also every parent&#8217;s nightmare,&#8221; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward R. 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Its activities took place from late 2020 through early this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Justice Department, Varagiannis and Nepal led a core subgroup within 764 that operated through encrypted messaging apps, and they allegedly directed and participated in the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These defendants allegedly recruited others to exploit children and created a guide for the disgusting online content they wanted,&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/patel-fbi-director-government-jet\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">FBI Director Kash Patel<\/a><\/span> said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal was arrested in North Carolina last week and Varagiannis was arrested on Monday in Greece, where he resides, authorities said. 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