A man found on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, who also is also a former private school teacher, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, Reuters reports.
Eric Toth, 31, fled from the Washington D.C. area to Nicaragua in 2008 after authorities were investigating allegations he kept child porn on a camera at U.S. capital's private Beauvoir School. He was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 2012, and was arrested by Nicaraguan police in April, who extradited him to the United States.
"Eric Toth is every parent's worst nightmare: a serial predator who took advantage of his position as a camp counselor and a teacher to sexually exploit children in his care," Ronald Machen, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a statement.
The former teacher pleaded guilty to three counts of production of child pornography and to one count each of misuse of a Social Security number and identity theft, according to Reuters.
Toth admitted to videotaping children using hidden cameras. Pornographic images, some depicting sexual acts with minors, were found on a camera and media card in the school in June 2008, as will as on a thumb drive found in the ex-teacher's car.
"He took photographs and videos of a sleeping camper while working as a counselor at a Wisconsin summer camp in 2005 and, two years later, filmed himself sexually molesting a prepubescent boy, prosecutors say," according to the Associated Press.
"He also installed hidden cameras inside a bathroom at the Beauvoir School, a private elementary school where he worked as a third-grade teacher. The recordings captured 15 children under the age of 10," AP reports.
Toth faces 22 to 30 years in prison according to the terms of his reported plea agreement. The former teacher and camp counselor will be sentenced on March 11, 2014.
