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A former teacher in the American state of Texas, Bruce Unger, has been convicted of sexual fondling of children and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Unger evaded trial until December 2008, when local officials, FBI agents and U.S. Marshals tracked him to a town outside Kiev, Ukraine. Authorities said he was living there under the adopted name Tylor McCoy and teaching English lessons.

Unger accepts plea bargain, gets 40 years