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Ex-teacher gets 40 years for child indecency
Posted: 06.23.2009 at 10:42 AM
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BRYAN, TEXAS (AP) -- A former Bryan school teacher and soccer coach has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault of a child and other counts.

Opening statements had been set for Tuesday for 30-year-old Bruce Unger.

Unger on Monday pleaded guilty to all charges, including bond jumping.

Unger was arrested in November 2006 on charges that he fondled two boys.

Unger was re-arrested in early 2007 on three more counts of indecency with a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports more people came forward with child molestation accusations following Unger's original arrest.

The former instructor at Neal Elementary School fled to the Ukraine, where he was caught in 2008 teaching English in a town near Kiev.

(Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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