FBI: Ohio man charged with trying to buy a 10-year-old girl for $400 'to keep and use for sexual purpose.'

An Ohio man has been charged with trying to buy a 10-year-old girl "to keep and use for sexual purpose," the FBI said Wednesday.

Robert W. Thomas, 36, of Cuyahoga Falls, was arrested Saturday, Stephen D. Anthony, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cleveland division, and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach said in a news release.

"On January 11, 2014, detectives from the Alliance Police Department arrested a man who was attempting to purchase a 10-year-old female child to keep and use for sexual purposes," the release said. "The man had posted on an online site asking for anyone willing to arrange a 'marriage' of their daughter to him. An Alliance Police Department officer, also assigned to the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, responded to the man's posting and began a conversation."

Authorities said Thomas arranged a meeting at which he would buy a girl for $400, and was arrested "with $400 cash in his hand."

Thomas was being held in the Stark County Jail on $2 million bond. UPI