Collin John Thomas Walker, Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise, California 2022

LOS ANGELES, California – Two men were arrested today in a federal crackdown on a neo-Nazi child exploitation enterprise that groomed and coerced minors to produce child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Collin John Thomas Walker, 23, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii, were arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment that charges them with one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

The indictment also charges two other defendants who are already in custody: Rohan Sandeep Rane, 28, of Antibes, France, and Kaleb Christopher Merritt, 24, of Spring, Texas.

According to the indictment, from at least 2019 to 2022, Rane, Walker, Merritt, and Borge were members of CVLT (pronounced ‘cult’), an online group that espoused neo-Nazism, nihilism, and pedophilia as its core principles.

CVLT members worked collectively to entice and coerce children to self-produce CSAM on a platform run by CVLT members where they groomed children for the eventual production of CSAM through various means of degradation.

If convicted, the defendants would face a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence and a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006.

The indictment charges the defendants with:

Engaging in a child exploitation enterprise (18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1)(B)(ii)).

Collin John Thomas Walker and Rohan Sandeep Rane are expected to make initial court appearances later today in New Jersey and France, respectively.

Rohan Sandeep Rane was previously charged with several child exploitation and related offenses in France and has been in French custody since 2022.

Kaleb Christopher Merritt is currently in Virginia state custody, serving a 50-year sentence for child sex abuse crimes committed in 2020 and 2021.

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