United States: 764's founder sentenced to eighty years — the network built on coerced self-harm
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Appellate history
2026-02
Petition denied; eighty-year term stands.
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
founder and leader of the 764 network
Organization
764
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CORE, not merely terror: 764's satanic-nihilist doctrine was the instrument of coercion itself — children were extorted into cutting sigils into their own skin and performing self-harm on camera, which is authority exercised through belief even though the authority is a network rather than a pulpit.
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
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Proceedings
2023-05-16 · guilty plea; affirmed on collateral attack
Erath County District Court, Texas, USA; habeas review in the Northern District of Texas. Bradley Chance Cadenhead, who founded the 764 network on Discord in 2021 — naming it for his ZIP code — pleaded guilty on 16 May 2023 to nine counts of possessing child sexual-abuse material and was sentenced to eighty years in state prison. A federal habeas petition was denied in February 2026, leaving the sentence intact.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- children extorted into carving sigils into their own bodies
- coerced self-harm and sexual content filmed for the network's status economy
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting post conviction disposition Report of the 2026 habeas denial and the underlying eighty-year sentence.
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- https://www.tampafp.com/court-slams-door-on-texas-764-ring-leader-bradley-cadenheads-bid-for-freedom/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: post-conviction-disposition. SHA-256 b0247247284353adbae6c7678ea58a0e4856a6db5f59c8da632643669e1bed0c
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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