An FBI contractor has been arrested for producing child pornography.
Brett Janes paid a minor to engage in strip games over the internet, according to an FBI investigation.
The minor, a 13-year-old male, told authorities he met Janes while they were playing an online tactical shooter video game. The pair began messaging.
Janes asked to play a version of the game that involved the loser removing an article of clothing while the other watched through a video application. They later engaged in sexual acts.
Janes provided about $500 to the minor, who had seen Janes’s badge.
Janes “is using tactics consistent with ‘grooming’ to entice [the minor] to play strip video games,” according to FBI agent Paul Fisher, who authored an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant….