A Bristol man who arranged to have sex with a 12-year-old girl with her father was instead arrested at a Southington motel, where he found out he had actually been corresponding with an undercover FBI agent.
Robert Sellers, 60, was charged by Southington police with three offenses, including criminal attempted commercial sex abuse of a minor, but the federal investigation is ongoing, officials said Wednesday.
The investigation began in October when FBI agents linked Sellers to an incest website using his social media accounts and he exchanged more than 500 messages with an undercover agent through encrypted messaging apps Kik and Wickr, Southington Lt.