Conviction Left-hand-path / Satanist / occult Left-hand-path and Satanist movements Lansing, Michigan, USA (defendant of Kaleva, Michigan) · 2024

Richard Densmore: 30-year sentence for 764-network exploitation and coercion

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

764-network organizer

Organization

764

Archive classification

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The cited record identifies online grooming, extortion, violent occult ideology, and coerced self-harm as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is 764-network organizer.

Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-10-31 · guilty plea and sentence

United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan (No. 1:24-cr-00007, Judge Hala Y. Jarbou), sitting at Lansing. Richard Anthony Reyna Densmore, 47, of Kaleva, Michigan, pleaded guilty in July 2024 to sexual exploitation of a child and was sentenced to the statutory maximum of thirty years' imprisonment. Known online as 'Rabid', he ran 'Sewer' communities on Discord within the 764 network, in which members recruited children — particularly children with mental-health difficulties — to cut themselves and to perform sexual acts on camera. The docket was terminated on 8 November 2024.

Documented coercion mechanisms

online grooming
extortion
violent occult ideology
coerced self-harm

Research clusters

764

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority disposition U.S. Department of Justice, remarks on Richard Densmore’s 30-year sentence (Oct. 31, 2024).: The Justice Department describes Densmore’s role in a 764 network that coerced minors into sexual abuse material, self-harm, and other violence and records the 30-year sentence.
prosecuting authority statement sentencing announcement 'Member Of Violent 764 Terror Network Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Sexually Exploiting A Child', U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan, 7 November 2024.: The prosecuting district's own announcement of the sentence, establishing the Western District of Michigan as the prosecuting district and naming Richard Anthony Reyna Densmore of Kaleva, Michigan. This is the source of record for the jurisdiction correction applied to this record.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-matthew-g-olsen-delivers-remarks-30-year-prison-sentence Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: disposition. SHA-256 7515deecefa61ea55e49aad052716cd0b1837ae60131561a9cc044685573aa8b
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2024_1107_Densmore_A_Sentenced Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority-statement; evidentiary role: sentencing-announcement.
Retrieval: 2026-07-28 · Preserved; Bound by Fear research cycle 2026-07-28 (jurisdiction corrected against the federal docket and the prosecuting district's release)

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