‘Without legal or factual merit’: Judge rejects satanic pedophile leader’s demands for freedom

A Trump-appointed federal judge denied a Satanist child exploitation network founder’s appeal on Tuesday, upholding his 80-year punishment in Texas.

Bradley Cadenhead, 20, failed a second legal challenge against his May 2023 sentencing on child pornography crimes in Erath County after creating 764, a still-online group the FBI says grooms minors into self-harm and sexual acts on camera, court documents show. Cadenhead’s petition, claiming he lacked a competent legal team, “is...