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The name David Wendel Thompson first appeared on the news in March of 2014. That's when the American teacher was caught by US Authorities on his way to Belize. They say he had used facebook to seduce two Belizean girls aged 13 and 15. Well, Thompson pleaded guilty to online enticement of a minor, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison – but the Florida District Judge imposed a lesser sentence of 15 years. After he is released from prison, he will serve 10 years of probation.

Evidence produced in the case disclosed that the standard four teacher led a double life – where he was "Big Dave" to under-aged Belizean girls, plying them with gifts and fantastical stories about his life in the US. To snare the minors, he invented and assumed the facebook identity of a teenaged girl named Iris Levy – who introduced the other girls, via facebook to this "Big Dave" – who she claimed spent a lot of money. He plied the impoverished girls with stories of his air conditioned life, cars and a restaurant called Golden Corral, where they had fountains of chocolate for dipping marshmallows and strawberries.

The chats started in December 2013, and were staged late at night and his lawyer said they were fueled by alcohol and drugs. They were graphic and he asked one of the girls for a picture of her genitals. He was caught coming to Belize in March with two computer tablets which would be gifts for the girls as well as a bag with condoms and Cialis, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.

And while he played "Big Dave" to seduce children, in court, he begged the judge for mercy, saying he was scared of jail, and worried about never seeing his mother again.

Interestingly, Thompson had visited Belize 6 times since 2011.

But, information obtained by 7News shows that he may have been coming to Belize for more than just illicit pleasures – a marriage notice said that he married a Belize woman from Dangriga. She was 21 years old and they separated shortly after.