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FBI agents, along with Eugene police, arrested Eugene resident Barret Russel Spangler, 39, at his home about 7:30 a.m. Friday as part of an investigation into online child pornography. (AP Photo)

A Eugene man who went by the online name "notpervect'' is accused of buying videos showing a woman and her young daughter in a bedroom naked, jumping on the bed, playing tickling games and the mother sexually abusing the child, according to a federal complaint.

FBI agents and Eugene police arrested Barret Russell Spangler, 39, at his home about 7:15 a.m. Friday.

He's accused of one count of possession and receipt of child pornography.

According to the federal complaint, Spangler admitted he was sexually aroused while watching the woman's video and other videos of child pornography he bought online. The woman was identified only as "Lucy'' in the complaint.

The arrest is part of an ongoing FBI investigation into an unidentified website that involves people recording sexual activity with children and distributing the videos to its members. The FBI identified a woman who was streaming videos of her sexual contact with her daughter, who was 1- to 3-years-old at the time, on a video chat program, according to the complaint.

The FBI contacted the woman and then began identifying people who were buying and viewing the videos. Spangler is one of the men, according to the FBI.

Spangler is the same man who paid another woman, Kelsey Wheeler of Portland woman, for sex and then discussed the possibility of a future sexual encounter with a young child provided by Wheeler, according to federal documents.

The Portland woman, Kelsey Wheeler, 27, was arrested in April, accused of sex trafficking a child.

Spangler told the FBI that he had met Wheeler through her Backpage advertisement in January. They exchanged text messages about "fantasies and taboo/extreme fetishes, which included sexual relations with children,'' according to an FBI affidavit.

They met for sex in the woman's Southeast Portland apartment in January. At that meeting, Wheeler told him that she could arrange an "encounter" between him and her daughter, who Spangler understood to be between 4 or 5 years old for $1000, FBI Special Agent Isabel Scharn wrote in a federal complaint. The woman told Spangler she'd remain in the room with him and the child.

After that conversation, Spangler said the woman would no longer discuss any details over the phone or through text messages and wanted to meet with Spangler in person. Spangler said he later got "cold feet," the complaint said. He didn't go through with it and deleted her phone number from his phone, Scharn wrote.

Wheeler admitted offering to provide a child of less than 6 years of age to Spangler, who intended to pay $6,000 for the sexual encounter, the complaint said.

Wheeler said she didn't offer her daughter and never intended to provide a child for the man's sexual gratification, but played along because she planned to take his money, a court affidavit said. The proposed sexual encounter with a child never occurred, according to court documents.

Wheeler's daughter was removed from her home based on the FBI investigation.

Spangler estimated that he spent $2,000 for online sexual gratification in 2016.

-- Maxine Bernstein

mbernstein@oregonian.com

503-221-8212

@maxoregonian