US predator Kyle Spitze who groomed Aussie girl handed record 77-year sentence over sadistic ‘764’ cult
A US predator who groomed an Australian teenager into carving his name into her body has received an unprecedented jail sentence for nihilistic violent extremism in the United States.
Julie Cross - August 20, 2026
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Exclusive: A notorious member of a sadistic online terror cult – who groomed an Australian girl into carving his name into her body and livestreaming explicit content from her bedroom – has been jailed for 77 years.
Kyle Spitze, 27, from Tennessee, US, was one of the original members of the predator group 764 and offshoot HarmNation, committed to bringing about the downfall of society through terrorism, specifically by targeting children and other vulnerable people and extorting them to engage in criminal sexual conduct, self-harm, and mass casualty events.
At his sentencing on Wednesday, Spitze was given the longest federal prison sentence ever imposed on a nihilistic violent extremist in the US.
The evil predator had previously pleaded guilty to the production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), abetting the distribution of animal crushing videos, and possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM, operated under the online moniker ‘Criminal’.
While his charges related to US victims, the FBI also found images of the Australian girl, who we are not naming, on Spitze’s phone. She was asked to give an impact statement as part of the court proceedings.
The Australian victim previously told this masthead how Spitze had groomed and blackmailed her into filming explicit material of herself from her NSW bedroom, while her unsuspecting family was in the house.
The girl, who was 16 when the abuse began, was also connected to other members of the extremist network and only told her mum what was happening when they tried to persuade her to kill the family cat.
Last year the Australian Federal Police issued an alert over multiple online networks targeting kids.
The Australian victim’s mother said these predators were pure evil and her daughter, who was left suicidal, was “covered with scars that are visible, and those inside her that are not”.
“She was made to mutilate her body and encouraged to starve herself, leading to a diagnosis of anorexia,” her mum said.
The FBI started looking into tips that HarmNation members were distributing child sexual abuse material in December 2023.
Spitze was identified as one of those members and found to have hosted a social media channel where he uploaded images and videos of nude minor girls who had self-mutilated with cuts and gashes, with variations of Spitze’s “Crim” or “Criminal” monikers written in blood on themselves or carved into their bodies.
The channel also hosted images of animal mutilation, with a variation of “Crim” written in the images.
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