The Department of Justice has charged five men accused of running an online “child exploitation enterprise” called “Greggy’s Cult” that allegedly used Discord servers as a platform from which to blackmail minors into committing “horrific acts of self-harm” on web cams.
The five men – Hector Bermudez, 29, of Queens, New York; David Brilhante, 28, of San Diego, California; Zachary Dosch, 26, of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Camden Rodriguez, 22, of Longmont, Colorado; and Rumaldo Valdez, 22, of Honolulu, Hawaii – were arrested Tuesday and will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date, according to the DOJ.
