United States: forty years for the leader of a 764 splinter that coerced children on camera
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Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
administrator and leader of '8884', a 764-related network
Organization
8884 (764-related network)
Archive classification
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CORE. The Justice Department's 'nihilistic violent extremist' framing describes a network organised around destroying civilised society through the corruption of the vulnerable — the ideology is the coercion mechanism, applied directly to the children it targeted.
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2026-07-08 · guilty plea and sentence
US District Court, Western District of Texas. Alexis Aldair Chavez, who administered the 764-related network '8884', pleaded guilty in December 2025 to racketeering and to distributing and possessing child sexual-abuse material, and was sentenced in July 2026 to forty years with lifetime supervised release and restitution. Prosecutors described him and his co-conspirators coercing a girl into cutting her tongue and into torturing and killing an animal on live video, and extorting several girls into filmed self-harm.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- a girl coerced into cutting her tongue and into torturing and killing an animal on live video
- extortion of several girls into filmed self-harm
Cited record
Sources
- official prosecutor release sentencing release US Department of Justice: 'Nihilistic Violent Extremist Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison'.
The prosecuting authority's sentencing release.
- national newspaper court reporting sentencing report CyberScoop: report of the sentence.
Independent corroboration.
Source provenance
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nihilistic-violent-extremist-sentenced-40-years-prison-san-antonio Corpus classification: official-prosecutor-release; evidentiary role: sentencing-release. SHA-256 48918ee659be7ba56f21e2538142b41c5f5a2b3d3e241ba3207f6b317e46acee
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
- Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
- Source and tier basis
- https://cyberscoop.com/764-splinter-group-leader-sentenced-alexis-chavez/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 8e4793cc2a54705869fc16fa85c5d4d90468c63f7a673be917cfcfc238c16e28
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
- Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
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