MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - A convicted sex offender -- who admits he molested as many as 300 boys over the past ten years -- pleaded guilty today to molesting two teenage boys in Prince William County.

42-year-old Thomas Koucky has told police he had an uncontrollable attraction to boys.

At today's hearing in Manassas, a police detective testified that the two victims told him that Koucky gave them alcohol, marijuana and cash to coax them. Koucky even became friends with the parents of one of the boys.

Koucky also faces child molestation charges in Arlington. He was arrested in that case in June, but was freed on bond over prosecutors' objections. Within days, authorities discovered he had fled to Guatemala. But Guatemalan authorities expelled him, and Koucky was returned to Virginia.

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Date published: 3/1/2005

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