Colin John Thomas Walker accused in neo-Nazi ring CVLT
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal authorities said.
Colin John Thomas Walker, 23, of Bridgeton, about 50 miles west of Atlantic City, was a member of CVLT, an online cabal of like-minded creeps who worked as a team “to entice and coerce children to self-produce child pornography on servers associated with and run by” the group, investigators said.
Walker, who has been charged with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, could face life in prison if convicted.
Walker — who used handles including “CVLLEN,” “ghoblins,” and “WRATH” — coerced his victims into engaging in increasingly demeaning acts online, “including cutting and eating their own hair, drinking their urine, punching themselves, calling themselves racial slurs, and using razor blades to carve CVLT members’ names into their skin,” according to court documents.
The self-made kiddie porn “sometimes included use of pets or other children, or insertion of foreign objects like knives or cacti into their genitals.”
They also sent their victims violent video footage of animals being tortured to death and women being raped, the indictment alleged.
During the grooming, the men used “Nazi symbols and language” and shared bondage, S&M and “gore child pornography” with their young victims.
In time, CVLT members tried convincing the children to commit suicide on livestream.
“When victims hesitated, resisted, or threatened to tell parents or authorities, CVLT members would threaten to distribute already-obtained compromising photos and videos of the victims to their family and friends,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
“For victims who stopped participating . . . CVLT would sometimes carry through on their threats.”
Also arrested on the same charge were Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii; French national Rohan Sandeep Rane, 28; and Kaleb Christopher Merritt, 24, of Spring, Texas.
CVLT was formed with the ultimate intention of creating “an army of sadist followers,” the feds said.
It was unclear how, where, and when the four defendants met. Two of the victims in the case lived in Southern California.
Their crimes were carried out between 2019 and 2022, the indictment said.
CVLT was headed up by Rane, Walker, and Merritt. Walker could not immediately be reached for comment.
Rane was in a French prison following his 2022 arrest on unrelated child exploitation charges, the DOJ said. Merritt has been in a Virginia prison since 2021, after he was arrested for traveling to that state from Texas to rape a 12-year-old he’d met online. He’s serving a 350-year sentence.
