Conviction New religious movements Online nihilist network Stephenville, Texas, USA · 2023

United States: 764's founder sentenced to eighty years — the network built on coerced self-harm

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

founder and leader of the 764 network

Organization

764

Spiritual nexus

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

Evidence structure

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.

Appellate history

2026-02 · undefined

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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

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting post conviction disposition Report of the 2026 habeas denial and the underlying eighty-year sentence.: Court reporting on the collateral-attack outcome.

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