Within the authorities’s sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors requested that Densmore obtain the utmost 30-year penalty for his position in creating and main “on-line chat rooms the place youngsters had been inspired to chop themselves, bleed for members, and publicly have interaction in wicked sexual acts.”
Prior authorities filings present that Densmore ran a 764-adjacent server referred to as “S3wer,” the place he hosted different 764 members and supplied an area to groom underage victims into sexually exploiting themselves and harming themselves for his profit, typically carving his alias into their our bodies in a follow frequent to 764 and its offshoots often called “cut-signing.” In keeping with prosecutors, some victims are pushed to commit suicide on digicam for the leisure and standing of their exploiters, although no exact variety of suicides linked to 764 as been given.
Utilizing excerpts of on-line conversations Densmore had each together with his victims and different members of 764, totally on Discord, federal prosecutors confirmed Densmore’s delight at his place of affect in 764.
In September 2022, Densmore intimidated a sufferer into self-abuse by demonstrating he had compromising data on them and that he ran not one however two CSAM and extortion servers. “I’m the proprietor of cultist [another 764 Discord server] and 764. I need you to chop for me.” The consumer responded that they didn’t reduce, to which Densmore responded by threatening to reveal confidential details about the minor: “Don’t make daddy offended. I’ll extort you. . . . I’ve all of your data. I personal you . . . You do what I say now kitten.”
In an October 2022 Discord conversations between Densmore and one other participant in his baby abuse servers included by the feds within the proof in opposition to Densmore, he bragged about his exploitation strategies.
“I gaslight and make them fucked up. Then they observe me,” Densmore mentioned. “We received a lady to chop her ass off on cam. They kill their pets too. Most will do something for energy.” When a Discord consumer advised Densmore that there was no cause to abuse individuals, Densmore wrote, “They beg for it.”
A lot of the proof in opposition to Densmore was sealed by courtroom order to guard the identities of his victims and due to the stunning nature of the proof introduced in opposition to him.
“Densmore’s telephones, seized throughout search warrants on this case, include a few of the most heinous photos and movies the undersigned counsel has had the misfortune of seeing,” assistant US lawyer Adam Townshend wrote in his sentencing memorandum.
The feds additionally drilled down on Densmore’s seeming enjoyment of his on-line notoriety. “Being Discord well-known isn’t all it’s cracked as much as be,” he messaged one other consumer, and in one other occasion lamented, “Why can’t these ppl simply let me be well-known.”
Previous to his indictment and arrest, Densmore was initially raided by the FBI in February 2023, when the FBI discovered CSAM on his gadgets. Once they raided him earlier this yr, the feds declare Densmore had two cell telephones hidden in an air vent in his bed room. He’d additionally confronted prices of a sexual offense involving a minor within the Nineties, in response to a authorities submitting from January. At one level final yr, Densmore posted a video to a 764 server depicting himself burning electronics in a metallic barrel exterior. “Bye-bye, proof,” Densmore says on the recording.