Accused pedophile’s chilling links to ‘764’ cult that wants to destroy the world by targeting CA children

An accused pervert charged with grooming young girls in California has been linked to an extremist cult that wants to destroy civilization.

Bryant Gonzalez from Downey, LA County, has been allegedly tied to “764,” an online network of creeps trying to tear apart society through the corruption and exploitation of minors.

The network’s goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States, according to the FBI.

Gonzalez, 24, was busted in his hometown on Thursday and accused of sickening crimes against young girls aged 11 and 15.

He allegedly groomed one of his victims to film herself engaging in self-harm and self-humiliation and then shared the vile images with others online.

764 is a “sadistic” group operating domestically and abroad. Federal authorities have arrested a number of ringleaders, but the group remains active in California.

On April 3, Jose Henry Ayala Casami of San Fernando was arrested by the FBI on a criminal complaint charging him with possession of child pornography.

The 28-year-old man is accused of participating in an online 764 group that blackmailed young girls into making videos of themselves engaged in degrading sexual acts, sadistic torture sessions, and carving their abusers names on their bodies. 

The group also encouraged minor girls to commit suicide, feds charge.

Casami pleaded guilty in December 2025 to one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 24.

Last summer, federal prosecutors again led an investigation resulting in the arrest of an accused 764 sicko in who allegedly victimized kids Southern California.

Members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on August 27 arrested Dong Hwan Kim at his Downey residence following the execution of a federal search warrant.

According to Kim’s criminal complaint, several young girls reported that Kim enticed them to send pictures and videos of themselves engaging in sexual acts.

The complaint alleges Kim was aligned with 764 and threatened to send naked photographs to the victims’ family or post them online.

According to one of his victims, Kim operated a server where he and others traded child pornography, and extorted minors to get nude and engage in humiliating behavior.

Kim pleaded not guilty in September to four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. His trial is scheduled for May 5.

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LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli has brought at least three cases against the group in the last year.

He told the California Post: “They’re calling themselves 764, and they’re a nihilistic, violent, extremist group. They might target kids who are depressed or down or lonely.

“They figure out how to identify these kids, and they build a relationship, and then they convince them to send sexual material to them, which then gets used as blackmail.

“They just want to spread this evilness and get people as many people to engage in this conduct as they can.”

764 isn’t the only group of online predators that families have to worry about on the West Coast.

In January of last year, alleged perverts with an international, neo-Nazi pedophilia ring called CVLT were accused of victimizing at least 16 minors around the world, including two in Southern California.

According to federal prosecutors, the twisted outfit groomed and coerced the minors to produce child sexual abuse material and images of self-harm.

And federal authorities on May 14 announced the arrest of five defendants federally charged in Los Angeles and Orange County as as part of a nationwide crackdown on child sex offenders led by  Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. 

Charged variously with possessing, distributing, and producing child pornography, the five individuals named by prosecutors in May were likened to 764 predators by Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

“Each day, our agents are tackling criminal allegations involving children, whether it be online dangers such as sextortion, emerging nihilist extremist networks such as 764, or children being groomed by someone close to them,” Davis said.

“We urge caretakers of all children to educate themselves about these constant threats,” he added.