Federal court documents link an 18-year-old Hilo man charged with possession of child pornography to neo-Nazi satanic pedophiles.
Kalana Limkin pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to the single charge in the indictment returned last week by a federal grand jury.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Rom Trader set Limkin’s trial for Feb. 21. Also on the court calendar is a preliminary hearing on Jan. 2 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wes Reber Porter.
Limkin “adheres to the beliefs of a group known as ‘764’,” according to a motion to detain him on bail, which was granted by Trader last week.
The motion describes 764 as “a radical offshoot of a satanic anarchist group, The Order of Nine Angles (‘O9A’), which espouses the belief that society must be destroyed from within.”
According to the document, O9A “encourages members to engage in criminal acts, including violence, sexual assault, murder and terrorism, to accelerate and cause the demise of Western society.”
It further states that O9A “advocates ‘culling,’” described as “a form of human sacrifice to eliminate Jews, people of color and others deemed to be inferior under their Social Darwinist views, as well as rape and sexual assault as a means of asserting domination, breaking social norms, and propagating the expansion of the white race.”
The feds claim Limkin is the founder and leader of a group, “Cultist,” which focuses on “promoting child pornography, child exploitation, sexual extortion and trafficking, and self-harm of minors.”
At the detention hearing, Trader found Limkin to be both a danger to the community and a flight risk, if released.
According to the criminal complaint, which has been unsealed, Limkin was under investigation for almost eight months until criminal charges were brought against him two weeks ago.
A minor victim was interviewed on June 23 by the Children’s Justice Center of Oahu, the complaint alleges. The girl, whose age isn’t disclosed in the document, allegedly told the interviewer that she met Limkin through Omegle — a formerly free, anonymous web-based chat service that was shut down last month. That program connected to Limkin’s server on Discord, and he allegedly showed the minor child pornography of a 5-year-old girl being raped. The victim reportedly told the interviewer Limkin would make girls “cut his name into their body,” and that he had a collage of pictures depicting that.
Limkin reportedly asked the minor for photos of her in her underwear. It’s unclear whether she complied. The complaint states the girl reported Limkin to authorities after he posted child pornography on 4Chan, an image-based internet messaging board where users can post anonymously. He also allegedly posted Nazi and child porn memes in his Discord server.
The FBI and other law enforcers on Dec. 13 served a search warrant on Limkin’s home, and he agreed to talk after being read his Miranda rights, documents state. According to Hawaii Police Department Capt. Rio Amon-Wilkins, a pair of detectives assigned to West Hawaii assisted in the investigation.
Limkin reportedly admitted to being the founder of Cultist, as well as asking minor girls to send him nude photos of themselves, as well as receiving and being in possession of child pornography files on his cellphone, which the feds seized.
Five child porn files were found, the complaint alleges, including prepubescent girls being raped.
The charge against Limkin carries a mandatory prison sentence of between five and 20 years upon conviction.
Limkin has no prior criminal record.
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