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Counter-Strike co-creator and Valve Software employee Jess Cliffe has officially been charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor, according to the Seattle Police Department. Cliffe was arrested last week, and the King County Prosecutor's Office released a statement of probable cause. According to reports, the victim of the crime was 16 years old at the time of the alleged incidents. Ars Technica explained that "she was initially referred to Seattle Police by Child Protective Services due to "reports of CSEC [Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] activities." The woman explained that she had used the website SeekingArrangement.com to "meet with men who offered to pay her money to have sex with her." Seattle Police manged to obtain conversational record from SeekingArrangement.com through warrants served to AT&T and Verizon that linked Cliffe and the alleged victim on June 5 and 6 of last year. "After being informed of his Miranda rights, Cliffe confirmed to investigators his use of multiple websites to arrange dates with women, and that, in some cases, those included "arrangements" that included payment for their time," Ars Technica wrote. Through interrogation of Cliffe, police was able to establish 'probable cause' as the accused "corroborated enough of the information that investigators had already established." Cliffe will have to be in court on 25 February and has posted $150,000 bail. He has also been suspended from Valve Software.
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