Former Teacher Once On FBI's Most Wanted List Hears Fate

Emily Thomas
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US citizen Eric Justin Toth (L), 31, is presented to the press by the police of Nicaragua, following his capture in the city of Esteli, at the headquarters of the National Police in Managua on April 22, 2013. Toth, accused for alleged possession and production of child pornography, is one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (Photo: )

Eric Toth, a former elementary school teacher who was once one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, has been sentenced to 25 years for child pornography.

Toth was arrested in Nicaragua in April 2013 after a five-year-long hunt by authorities to capture the former school teacher for child pornography charges. In December 2013, Toth pleaded guilty to three counts of producing child pornography, identity theft and misuse of a Social Security number.

"I know I've hurt people, a lot of people," Toth told the judge at Tuesday's sentencing in federal court, per BBC News. After serving his 25-year-sentence, Toth will spend the remainder of his life under supervised release, the outlet reports.

According to the Associated Press, Toth admitted that, while working as a third-grade teacher at Beauvoir school in Washington, D.C., he placed a hidden camera disguised as an air freshener that recorded 15 children under the age of 10 using the bathroom. A pornographic home video of a 10-year-old student that was made while the boy was sleeping was also discovered, the Washington Post notes.

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Toth, who was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 2012, fled the Washington, D.C., area in 2008 after the pornographic images were discovered on a school camera and media card. A fake suicide note was later found in a car parked at a Minnesota airport, the Washington Post reports. He was also found to have lived under false identities in Arizona and worked as a technical writer and computer technician in Austin, Texas, before fleeing the country.

Eric Justin Toth

The FBI added Eric Justin Toth, accused of possession and production of child pornography, to its Ten Most Wanted list of fugitives on April 10, 2012.
The FBI added Eric Justin Toth, accused of possession and production of child pornography, to its Ten Most Wanted list of fugitives on April 10, 2012.

Eric Justin Toth

Toth taught at a Washington, D.C. private school for three years until 2008 when another teacher allegedly discovered graphic photos and videos of children on a camera that the school issued to Toth.
Toth taught at a Washington, D.C. private school for three years until 2008 when another teacher allegedly discovered graphic photos and videos of children on a camera that the school issued to Toth.

Eric Justin Toth

Toth is also wanted in Maryland from a 2008 warrant accusing him of child porn production.
Toth is also wanted in Maryland from a 2008 warrant accusing him of child porn production.

Eric Justin Toth

The FBI says that Toth has been to Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota since fleeing Washington, D.C. The last reported sighting of him was in a Phoenix homeless shelter in 2009.
The FBI says that Toth has been to Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota since fleeing Washington, D.C. The last reported sighting of him was in a Phoenix homeless shelter in 2009.

Eric Justin Toth

A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Toth's arrest. He took a spot on the FBI's most wanted wanted fugitives list that became empty with Osama bin Laden's death in May 2011.
A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Toth's arrest. He took a spot on the FBI's most wanted wanted fugitives list that became empty with Osama bin Laden's death in May 2011.

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