Online Satanist networks targeting children for sexual abuse keep gravitating toward a gaming site that has pledged to crack down on them, according to documents and interviews obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Predatory Satanists are increasingly appearing on platforms popular with young people by the dozens, prompting attention from law enforcement and lawmakers who question the efficacy of online safety policies. The DCNF obtained screenshots of one such band of users on Discord who talked about having a sexual interest in minors, where to find “groomable victims” and how to avoid getting banned.
Discord, an online messaging platform, said in an email that the users’ accounts and chat rooms “were proactively detected and removed” on Feb. 21, meaning the chats were active for at least four days. “The horrific actions of these groups have no place on Discord or in society,” a spokesperson said.
“Discord is committed to providing a safe and secure online environment for all users, and we are taking decisive actions to address harmful content on our platform and to find and remove the users who create such content,” the spokesperson continued. “We are continuously working to improve these measures, and, where appropriate and permitted by law, Discord aims to collaborate with the FBI and law enforcement.”
‘Tempel Ov Love’
Discord has long dealt with safety concerns due to its design of allowing users as young as thirteen — with parental permission — to join private “servers” comprised of one or more chat rooms for group messaging and audio calls, often with strangers. Discord servers are spaces that users create with “text and voice channels” while making their own rules for them, the platform’s website says.
The DCNF obtained images from Feb. 19 and 20 of “Tempel Ov Love,” a Discord server with 26 users and a logo resembling that of “Tempel Ov Blood,” a Satanic, neo-Nazi occult group. Tempel Ov Blood glorifies child exploitation and encourages adherents to commit terrorist attacks. Users in the Discord server discussed how they might find “preys” in other online communities on platforms they did not specify.
Posts and profiles from the server displayed symbols of movements such as “764,” which the Department of Justice (DOJ) calls a global “terror network.” Members of 764 typically groom children in online forums full of violent content and pornography and extort them into harming themselves, according to the DOJ.
An FBI bulletin from March 6 warned the public of a “sharp increase” in 764’s activities, saying the predators operate through “social media sites, gaming platforms, and mobile applications commonly used by young people.” The agency said the 764 network and others coerce “victims as young as 9 years old” to make self-harm videos or sexual content of themselves, carve the names of their abusers into their bodies and even “live-stream their own suicide for the network’s entertainment.”
A symbol denoting the Satanic group 764 is displayed in a Discord server on Feb. 20, 2025.
The 764 predators may move between web platforms and change the name of their movement, but “the core goals and membership remain consistent,” the DOJ previously said.
“These groups are … full of femboys and women with mental health issues,” a Discord user said about other online networks, “Joy of Satan” or “JoS” and “Order of Nine Angles.”
“Actually sounds like the HQ of preys,” another replied — before saying, “so many groomable victims.”
“Everyone there would be so easy to manipulate and mindbreak,” the first user said.
The same two users discussed one underage girl “in the JoS forums who is a minor foid with autism,” using “foid” as derogatory internet slang for a female. One of them said she “is also brain damaged for drug abuse.”
The other user replied, “even more groom[able]” and asked, “Is she good looking?”
The user who first mentioned the girl later said, “I told the foid to show me her boobs and she ghosted me … she probably [reported] me.” Someone else then congratulated that person as the “top groomer” in the chat.
A user in a Satanist Discord server brags about soliciting a minor for sexual material of herself in a chat message on Feb. 19, 2025.
Another post from an unrelated conversation reads, “I would fuck a guy but only if he was good-looking and about the same age as me or a minor.”
Several past and ongoing prosecutions of child abuse cult members have shown some of them using Discord, a platform normally meant for playing video games while talking to friends. They also congregate on other platforms, sparking pledges from companies to crack down on the predatory networks, Wired and the Washington Post reported. An unnamed spokesperson for Discord also told Wired that it closely works with the FBI and law enforcement and that taking down 764 is a top priority.
In one recent case, 764 member Jairo Tinajero pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, racketeering and other federal charges on Feb. 11. Tinajero convinced a minor to send nude pictures of herself through Discord and Telegram, then threatened to show them to her family if she didn’t send him more, a plea agreement says.
Tinajero was also in “an online chatroom” on an unnamed platform that “directed a female who Tinajero and others believed was as young as 12 years old to repeatedly cut herself with a knife,” the document says.
Telegram said in December that it had partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation in December to “continue to effectively delete child abuse materials” and maintains what it calls “a zero-tolerance policy.”
Followers of 764 and similar groups work together toward “destroying civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of youth,” according to prosecutors in Tinajero’s case. A user in the Tempel Ov Love Discord server appeared to take inspiration from 764 cultist Angel Almedia, whom the DOJ charged with exploiting minors in 2021.
A Discord user posts an image of 764 member Angel Almeida on Feb. 19, 2025.
Users also touched on how other Satanists they knew of were “boring” for supposedly being “against pedos,” calling it “sad.”
‘Severe Risks’
A majority of “enforcement actions” Discord takes against accounts and servers are for child safety, self-harm concerns and violent extremism, a 2024 company report says. But employees still “aren’t doing enough at all,” said Becca Spinks, a firearms instructor who has gained notoriety by writing about Satanic predator networks in her spare time.
“Discord makes it ridiculously difficult for investigators like myself to report entire servers for abuse,” Spinks told the DCNF.
The quickest option for users on any device to report illegal activity is clicking a “report message” button on individual posts. Spinks and her research partner, who goes by the name “Paco” online, said Discord users they’ve observed easily evade this system. Paco belongs to a small team of researchers with Spinks and asked not to be named to avoid threats from the Satanic extremist groups. (RELATED: Transgender Teen’s Alleged Shooting Plot Is Latest Linked To Popular Chat Platform)
Paco and Spinks said some groups on Discord often “spam” child pornography in a server together and quickly delete posts before someone can click the report button.
“What people will do is they’ll record the spam and then screenshot, download … take whatever they want, and then leave the server, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Paco told the DCNF in a phone interview.
Paco claimed to have seen this happen in a past Discord server, describing a flood of content containing “gore, beastiality, obviously child pornography, self-harm” and animal abuse material or “animal crush.”
“It was the worst shit you could possibly imagine,” he said.
Paco said he reported that server anonymously to the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children because users were deleting posts too fast for him to report them one by one.
“It’s not an effective method and the fact that it hasn’t been fixed is frankly negligent,” Paco told the DCNF.
Discord has a “Report Server” button in its mobile app, but not for the desktop version. Spinks and Paco said they were not aware of the feature and were frustrated that restricting it to the mobile app creates another hurdle for reporting pedophiles.
Accounts on X, formerly Twitter, helped spread an invite link to the Tempel Ov Love Discord server as early as Feb. 17, with one account later deleting its post, the DCNF observed.
Users in the comments section of one of the X posts suggested ways to evade Discord bans: making alternate accounts, creating VPNs, using a program that creates temporary phone numbers and using an encrypted email service. One person inside the server told others to “delete anything that’s unsafe [or] edgy after like a minute.”
X’s CEO testified to lawmakers in January 2024 that fighting “child sexual exploitation” is “our top priority” during a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation of tech companies. Discord told the committee that it is relying on AI software to detect such content.
Discord said “all [child sex abuse material] reports are reviewed by humans” in comments to the DCNF.
Discord also removed a button on its website in 2023 that allowed anyone to file written reports directly to the trust and safety team, archived webpages show. The company told the DCNF that it did so because the “report” buttons others have complained about make the process “easier and faster.”
“The root of the problem is that Discord systematically fails to prioritize safeguarding on its platform — it fails to effectively, proactively identify abuse networks or activities, and it fails to protect minors on the platform as well,” Haley McNamara, Vice President at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), told the DCNF. “The platform is extremely popular with children, but we highly recommend that minors avoid Discord given the platform’s severe risks.”
“We have recommended that Discord start by defaulting all minors’ accounts to the highest level of safety and privacy available,” McNamara said. She has previously advised federal agencies on combating sexual exploitation.
Paco told the DCNF that parents must “strictly” monitor their kids’ internet activity “every day” to protect them from groups whose methods continue to evolve.
“I have been added, unadded, blocked, unblocked, loved and hated, but never forgotten,” reads a profile from the Tempel Ov Love server.
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