<ul class="summary-list"><li>A federal grand jury indicted <keyword id="10734705" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nathan-larson">Nathan Larson</keyword> on 5 charges related to an alleged <keyword id="44288" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kidnapping">kidnapping</keyword>.</li><li>Federal prosecutors say he used Discord, Kik, and a fringe chat room to talk with the 12-year-old.</li><li>The failed Congressional candidate admitted in a <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824/amp">2018 HuffPost interview</a> that he was a pedophile.</li></ul>A self-proclaimed white supremacist who has advocated for the legalization of child porn used social-media platforms to solicit sexually explicit images and messages from a 12-year-old girl before kidnapping her, according to allegations made by federal prosecutors in court documents obtained by Insider. Nathan Larson, 40, was <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-supremacist-pedophile-nathan-larson-arrested-charged-kidnapping-2020-12">arrested in December</a> when police say he kidnapped the girl from her Fresno, California, home, and planned to fly with her to his home in Virginia. Police intercepted Larson and the girl during a layover in Denver on December 14, <a href="https://www.fresnosheriff.org/media-relations/law-enforcement-rescues-12-year-old-fresno-girl-and-arrests-her-40-year-old-abductor.html">the Fresno Sheriff's Office said in a press release</a>. He was indicted on five federal charges including kidnapping, transportation of a minor, coercion and enticement of a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, and receipt and distribution of material involving child exploitation. The January 28 indictment comes after reports documenting Larson's white supremacist and pro-pedophilia statements. In a <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824/amp">2018 interview with HuffPost</a>, while he was running for Congress in Virginia, he admitted to being a pedophile, though insisted he'd never committed any crimes. In October, Larson met the victim on Discord, an instant messaging and voice chat platform, the federal complaint alleges. According to the complaint, Larson also communicated with the victim, who is not named in the filing, via Google Hangouts, the messaging app Kik, and a fringe rape and kidnapping fetish website that Larson himself allegedly ran. Larson is said to have used these platforms to receive explicit images from the girl, though he knew she was only 12 years old, according to the indictment. When asked about Larson's indictment, a Discord spokesperson told Insider in a statement, "We take the safety of all Discord users, but most importantly our younger users, incredibly seriously." The spokesperson said that when the company became aware of this case, the platform banned users, shut down servers, and continues to be "engaged with law enforcement." The spokesperson did not confirm whether Larson himself was banned from the app. Kik did not immediately respond to an inquiry. The anonymous platform has been used by <keyword id="48395" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pedophiles">pedophiles</keyword> to seek out explicit images from young girls, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/social-media-apps-anonymous-kik-crime.html">The New York Times reported</a> in 2016. Last week, a man in Illinois was arrested and admitted to police that he used Kik to send and receive child pornography, <a href="https://www.wandtv.com/news/deputies-child-pornography-suspect-sent-received-videos-on-kik-app/article_a5f52fac-6a81-11eb-bdc9-5bf4a4512ad0.html">according to local news outlet WAND 17</a>.<h2>The complaint alleges that Larson solicited explicit photos from the 12-year-old girl online</h2>The criminal complaint, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of California, alleges Larson told the victim that he planned to "take her virginity and get her pregnant." To gain full access to Larson's website last fall, the girl told investigators she had to "send a sexually explicit picture of herself" to Larson with the web address written on her body, according to court filings. According to the complaint, Larson used the same username, "Leucosticte," as he used on pro-pedophilia chatrooms in the past, which HuffPost reported on in 2018. Throughout a December conversation on the pedophilia kink website, which was excerpted and included in court documents, the user said to be Larson and the girl engaged in a sexual conversation and discussed the possibility of kidnapping. The conversation shows that the user described to the child certain poses to take photos in and upload those photos to the message board.Larson and the victim then began messaging on Google Hangouts, where they "discussed the plans in detail" for the kidnapping, according to the complaint.The complaint goes on to allege that the girl told investigators that once she and Larson got to the airport in California on December 14, as they were heading to his home in Virginia, he began kissing and touching her in public. Investigators say they later found child pornography on Larson's cell phone that appeared to show the rape of a girl between 7 and 8 years old. Since Larson's arrest, more people have come forward with information related to his online activities and communications with young girls, according to Tony Botti, the public information officer at the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. "We appreciate their willingness to get involved and encourage more to do so," he said in a January email to Insider. <h2>Larson has advocated for the legalization of child porn</h2><div type="image" title="NathanLarsonHome" height="3024" width="4032" msid="80778087" hostid="261"></div>As investigators noted in the criminal complaint, Larson has been vocal about being a pedophile. He previously ran two websites for "incels," or involuntary celibates. Incel communities feature violent and misogynistic language and can overlap with fringe pedophile communities. The incel forums believed to be run by Larson in the past <a href="https://babe.net/2018/05/30/incelocalypse-62690">included private spaces for pedophiles</a>. HuffPost's 2018 investigation revealed that the IP address for Larson's congressional campaign website matched those of the message boards. HuffPost also reported that in an online post in 2018, Larson said, "feminism is the problem, and rape is the solution." His advocacy for chauvinism played a huge role in his failed campaign for a Virginia House seat."We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands," Larson said in a 2018 campaign manifesto. "The purpose of women, in a patriarchal society, is to be reliable conformists to what is expected of them, and to be judged primarily based on their beauty and cooperativeness, i.e., their averageness; and only secondarily on the basis of intelligence."He also said in that manifesto that he supported the "legalization of child pornography possession and distribution" and called Adolf Hitler a "white supremacist hero." He also sought to protect "benevolent <keyword id="3022430" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-supremacy">white supremacy</keyword>."

A white supremacist used messaging apps Discord, Kik, and a fringe kink website to groom a 12-year-old, according to a federal prosecutors

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Brent Brown, a 39-year-old man, has been accused of <keyword id="12134305" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kidnapping" source="Orion">kidnapping</keyword> and raping student <keyword id="12801633" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="madelyn-allen" source="Orion">Madelyn Allen</keyword>.</li><li>Allen was found covered in coal dust after being missing for five days, authorities said.</li></ul>The man accused of kidnapping and raping student Madelyn Allen met her through the messaging platform <keyword id="12779056" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kik" source="Orion">Kik</keyword>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/brent-brown-accused-kidnap-rape-madelyn-allen-held-without-bail-2021-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the indictment obtained by Insider</a>.Kik is an anonymous platform that has been used by predators in the past to contact young victims and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/social-media-apps-anonymous-kik-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange explicit images</a>. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/03/kik-has-a-massive-child-abuse-problem/?sh=7ce4108b1a14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes reported it had a "huge child exploitation problem" in 2017</a> due to users' anonymity and the platform's lack of action in deleting offenders' profiles.Brent Brown, 39, was arrested on Saturday after Allen was found in his basement, naked and covered in coal dust, authorities said. She had been missing for five days. Brown was charged with six felonies, including <keyword id="11911221" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rape" source="Orion">rape</keyword>, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual <keyword id="11899439" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="assault" source="Orion">assault</keyword>, and obstructing justice, according to the indictment, which was filed in <keyword id="11920875" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="utah" source="Orion">Utah</keyword>'s Sixth District Court. He told investigators that his encounters with Allen were consensual. In 2018, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45568276" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a BBC investigation</a> found that Kik had been involved in 1,100 child sexual abuse cases in the previous five years."We take online safety very seriously, and we're constantly assessing and improving our trust and safety measures," Kik told the BBC in a statement at the time, adding that it would continue to "provide resources to parents and strengthen relationships with law enforcement and safety-focused organisations."Kik did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment for this article. In February, a convicted pedophile used the app to upload footage of himself abusing a child, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246265/Paedophile-filmed-abusing-child-posted-Kik-jailed-10-years.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Daily Mail reported.</a> Lewis Tupper, a 25-year-old man from West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for uploading videos and photos of him molesting an underage girl. The same platform where investigators said Brown and Allen met was also used by Nathan Larson, a self-professed pedophile and white supremacist <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-supremacist-discord-kik-alleged-kidnapping-indictment-nathan-larson-2021-2">whom authorities said kidnapped a 12-year-old girl in December 2020</a>.Larson, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-supremacist-pedophile-nathan-larson-arrested-charged-kidnapping-2020-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had advocated for legalizing child porn</a>, was charged with kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child for the intention of sex, among other things.An indictment by the Fresno County District Attorney's Office in California, previously obtained by Insider, said Larson used Kik, alongside other messaging sites and apps, to meet and groom his victim.The state of California has since dismissed their charges, state court records show, as the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of California took over the investigation earlier this year. He was indicted on five federal charges: kidnapping, sexual exploitation of a minor, receipt and distribution of child pornography, interstate transportation of an individual to engage in illegal sexual activity, and coercion and enticement of a minor. US court records show that Larson is next due in court in January for a competency hearing. Larson's attorney did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The site authorities say Madelyn Allen's suspected kidnapper used has been popular among men charged with sexual abuse

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 40-year-old man with a history of supporting <keyword id="182204" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pedophilia">pedophilia</keyword> and rape was arrested and charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl, police said.</li><li>Nathan Larson, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2018, previously admitted to <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824/amp">HuffPost</a> that he was a pedophile.</li><li>In a manifesto for his congressional run in Virginia, Larson advocated for the legalization of child porn.</li></ul>A self-proclaimed white supremacist who has advocated for the legalization of child porn and created online chat rooms for pedophiles was arrested and charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl.Authorities said Nathan Larson abducted the girl after meeting her on social media in the fall, according to a Saturday <a href="https://www.fresnosheriff.org/media-relations/law-enforcement-rescues-12-year-old-fresno-girl-and-arrests-her-40-year-old-abductor.html">press release</a> from the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. Fresno police said Larson was arrested at the Denver International Airport during a layover with the girl, who was reported missing on December 14 and has since been reunited with her family. Larson, who is 40, was flying with the girl from Fresno to his home in Virginia, according to police.Larson faces a misdemeanor charge of harboring a minor as well as federal charges of kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child for the intention of sex.Larson met the 12-year-old girl online in October. Police said he "was able to convince the Fresno girl, through manipulation and grooming, to send him pornographic images of herself" over the last two months. Tony Botti, the public information officer at the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, declined to share which social-media platform Larson had used to meet the victim. In an email to Insider, Botti said, "All social media can be used for malicious purposes."Larson was previously arrested in 2008 for sending a letter to the Secret Service threatening to kill the president of the United States. He pleaded guilty and spent 14 months in prison, authorities said.The 40-year-old is a known figure in the world of fringe online message boards, having previously created two websites for pedophiles and <a href="https://www.insider.com/virginia-man-planned-incel-attack-accidentally-blows-his-hands-off-2020-6">incels, or involuntary celibates.</a> When he ran for Congress as an independent in Virginia in 2018, the IP address for his campaign website matched those of the message boards, <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824/amp">HuffPost found.</a><div type="image" title="nathan larson arrested" height="864" width="1396" msid="79847722" hostid="261"></div>In <a href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824/amp">an interview with HuffPost in 2018</a>, Larson admitted to being a pedophile. He also told the outlet that there was a "grain of truth" to an essay he wrote about father-daughter incest and another story in which he claimed to have raped his ex-wife. His ex-wife was granted a restraining order against him in 2015, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/he-threatened-to-kill-the-president-now-he-is-seeking-public-office/2017/03/08/ec31f768-0381-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.48394b2770217021">the Washington Post reported</a>, before she died by suicide.Larson, who called Adolf Hitler a "white supremacist hero" in a 2018 campaign manifesto, has written extensively about his chauvinistic, patriarchal views, and engaged in discussions about violence, pedophilia, and rape on the message boards he previously ran. In one post published under a pseudonym in 2018, Larson wrote, "feminism is the problem, and rape is the solution," according to HuffPost. "We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands," Larson wrote in a 2018 campaign manifesto for his failed congressional run. "The purpose of women, in a patriarchal society, is to be reliable conformists to what is expected of them, and to be judged primarily based on their beauty and cooperativeness, i.e., their averageness; and only secondarily on the basis of intelligence."In that manifesto, which was taken down but <a href="https://archive.fo/8WkYo">remains available through webpage captures</a>, Larson said he supported the "legalization of child pornography possession and distribution." He also said he was running on a platform that included restoring "benevolent <keyword id="3022430" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-supremacy">white supremacy</keyword>."The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said in its press release that "detectives believe he has victimized other children in the past, but those cases have never been reported to law enforcement," because of the "sophisticated nature" with which Larson groomed the girl from Fresno. Botti, the public information officer, told Insider on Monday afternoon that the sheriff's office had already received a "tremendous" amount of tips from people across the US and Canada who communicated with Larson.Fresno police said Larson is currently incarcerated in the Denver County Jail and is expected in court on December 24. 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A white supremacist who has advocated for legalizing child porn was arrested and charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl he met online

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5b1190a11ae6624d008b4a4a-2000/nathanlarson.jpg" border="0" alt="Nathan_Larson" data-mce-source="NathanLarson.org" data-mce-caption="Nathan Larson, a Virginia congressional candidate." />NathanLarson.orgNathan Larson, a Virginia congressional candidate.</div></div></div><ul><li>An ex-con, self-declared racist with openly misogynistic views is running for Congress as an independent candidate in Virginia's 10th Congressional District. </li><li>Larson's campaign manifesto includes praise for Adolf Hitler and vehemently anti-feminist language. </li><li> According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a record number of white nationalists are running for national office in 2018. </li></ul><hr />An ex-con, self-declared racist with openly misogynistic views is running for Congress as an independent candidate in Virginia's 10th Congressional District. In an interview with<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nathan-larson-congressional-candidate-pedophile_us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824"> HuffPost</a> on Thursday, Nathan Larson, 37, of Charlottesville, Virginia, was reportedly "open about his pedophilia" because he doesn't want to be constrained by political correctness. "A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it," Larson said. "People prefer when there's an outsider who doesn't have anything to lose and is willing to say what's on a lot of people's minds."Larson admitted to HuffPost he was behind the websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today, which no longer exist but provided forums for pedophiles and misogynists. Though he never claimed to engage in sexual acts with minors in posts on these websites, Larson allegedly expressed a desire to do so. In his various writings, Larson also endorsed incest, kidnapping and rape.From HuffPost:<div data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec">When asked whether he's a pedophile or just writes about pedophilia, he said, "It's a mix of both. When people go over the top there's a grain of truth to what they say."</div><div data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="padding-left: 30px;">Asked whether there was a "grain of truth" in his essay about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife repeatedly, he said yes, offering that plenty of women have rape fantasies. </div>Larson's <a href="https://archive.fo/2gVvl">campaign manifesto</a> includes praise for Adolf Hitler and vehemently anti-feminist language. He described Hitler as a "white supremacist hero" and in a section supporting gun rights stated, "Guns don't kill people - feminists do." Larson argued in order to prevent future school shootings "patriarchal" rule must be reinstituted in American families. In the manifesto, Larson also states, "I am indeed racist."Larson ran for Congress in 2008 in Virginia's 1st District but was disqualified after <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2009/10/09/boulder-man-sentenced-in-presidential-threat/">threatening to kill the president</a>. He ultimately spent 14 months in a federal prison for the threat and was barred from running for public office. After Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights and other civil rights to felons, however, Larson once again became eligible to run. Larson is not the only person with unabashed white supremacist views hoping to end up in Congress. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/white-nationalists-running-for-office-in-2018-2018-5">record number of white nationalists</a> are running for national office in 2018. Despite his extremely controversial views, Larson believes people will vote for him because they're "open-minded" and are tired of establishment candidates. Business Insider reached out to Larson for further clarification on his stances on pedophilia, rape, racism and other controversial topics, but didn't receive an immediate response. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/economist-weighted-voting-could-help-save-us-democracy-2018-5">This top economist has a radical plan to change the way Americans vote</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/tdQolVXA-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

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