Iowa police solve investigation into a neo-Nazi group that sexually exploited children
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The Iowa State University Police Department is crediting a student for helping bring down a child exploitation enterprise that targeted dozens of young people.
“A lot of images, videos, files of the abuse. A lot of messages, not only to their victims and coercing their victims, but to other members in the group, to their friends, bragging, detailing their efforts and outcomes,” said Feld when asked to describe the content she was looking into
With the help of Feld, investigators connected Borge to the “CVLT,” pronounced “cult.” According to a federal indictment, this is an international group that supported neo-Nazism and pedophilia as its core principles. CVLT members groomed and coerced children to self-produce child pornography. They also coerced their victims to engage in dehumanizing acts, detailed in the indictment.
CVLT members coerced the children to continue producing more pornography by threatening to release the existing content to the child’s friends, family, or the public if the child did not want to produce more, according to the indictment.
The members exploited vulnerable children, like those with mental health challenges or prior sexual abuse, according to the document.
Investigators found at least 30 victims, and the youngest was 11-years-old.