Nov. 29, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| The protection of our children is one of our biggest priorities here. | |
| And the 764 network started in Texas. | |
| That's why it's called the 764 network. | |
| It was the area code of where it originated. | |
| And the original founder of that network is doing 80 years in federal prison, and rightly so. | |
| But we made a huge push this year to protect our children against these online predators. | |
| And this is the worst of the worst. | |
| These individuals are actors throughout America and throughout the world who don't really have a connection to each other in terms of group focus and group mission set. | |
| But individually, they subscribe to this ideology that they can prey on our children online. | |
| Just to look at the cases we've showed you in North Carolina, D.C., Jersey, and one other state recently. | |
| They were preying on kids from 8 to 15 years old, convincing them, these children, to send them nude and sexually explicit pictures, which amount to what we call child sexual pornography, which is a federal offense. | |
| What's worse is they were sharing and exchanging information about animal crushing, about torturing animals. | |
| What's worse than that is these individuals, these perpetrators, these criminals, were convincing children to mutilate themselves. | |
| And in some cases, unfortunately, more than one, these children ended up committing suicide because they were threatened by the perpetrator that we will go public if you tell anyone. | |
| And so I said, we are not having this at this FBI. | |
| So we made it a mission-set priority to collaborative work against the 764 network. | |
| And I'm proud to announce today, Jan, that the number of arrests that this FBI has against 764 network this year alone is up 490% from the same time last year. | |
| That's how hard we're going after this disgusting group of individuals, these criminals, and we're not going to stop until we safeguard the online community. | |
| And it's a big project, and I'm really appreciative. |
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