A Ventura man sent explicit materials to an undercover FBI agent posing as a 12-year-old and asked the girl to perform sex acts, the agency says.

Trevor Lyons, 41, was charged with nine felony counts related to sexual exploitation and the distribution of child pornography.

An undercover FBI agent busted an alleged pedophile living in Ventura by posing as both a dad and a daughter on online messaging platforms.

Trevor Lyons told the dad he would like to speak with his 12-year-old daughter, saying, “I’d love to see how much of a freak she is,” according to court documents. Lyons is accused of then adding the daughter as a friend on Discord and asking her if she would perform sex acts on him. The agent, meanwhile, was secretly controlling both accounts.

Lyons, 41, was arrested Monday and

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