Violent online network's leaders — dubbed "War" and "Trippy" — charged over alleged child exploitation

Two leaders of what authorities described as a violent online network have been arrested and charged for allegedly operating "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises" officials have ever seen.

The leaders, 21-year-old Leonidas Varagiannis, who is also known online as "War," and 20-year-old Prasan Nepal, also known as "Trippy," could spend the rest of their lives in prison for their alleged crimes, which include targeting vulnerable children online and "coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation," the Justice Department said in a news release Tuesday.

Some content was traced to kids as young as 13.