The Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing Varagiannis and Nepal's arrests. "We will find those who exploit and abuse children, prosecute them, and dismantle every part of their operation."
In August, the FBI's Los Angeles field office announced the arrest of a suspected 764 member.
The suspect, 27-year-old Dong Hwan Kim, was accused by several minor females of coercing them into sending him videos and photos of themselves engaging in sexual acts, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Durbin, D-Ill., introduced three bills targeting sentencing laws, violent online criminal networks and child sextortion.
One of the bills, known as the Ending Coercion of Children and Harm Online Act (ECCHO Act), would create a "penalty of up to life in prison if the offense involves the actual or attempted suicide by the victim or the death of another person, as well as a 30-year maximum penalty for harmful conduct that does not involve a death," according to a statement from Grassley's office.
In addition to the ECCHO Act, the senators also introduced the Sentencing Accountability for Exploitation Act (SAFE Act) and the Stop Sextortion Act. The SAFE Act aims to change sentencing guidelines for CSAM so it "accounts for modern indicators of especially dangerous conduct." The Stop Sextortion Act would target offenders who "threaten to distribute CSAM to intimidate, extort or coerce children." Under the bill, the maximum penalty for these offenses would be increased from five to 10 years.