A 24-year-old Ukrainian man who faked his name and age to attend a Pennsylvania high school has been ordered to spend two months in prison on federal fraud charges.
Illegal immigrant Artur Samarin admitted lying about his identity to get a free public education and to having sex with a 15-year-old girl in 2014 when he was 22.
He faces deportation during a sentencing next week for separate fraud and sex crime charges.
On Thursday, U.S. Middle District Senior Judge Sylvia Rambo sentenced Artur Samarin to less than the three-month jail term prosecutors suggested.
Samarin pleaded guilty to passport fraud and Social Security fraud in August.
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He had impressed teachers and community leaders while attending John Harris High School in Harrisburg and had been accepted into a college in Florida before authorities concluded he was considerably older and was a Ukrainian citizen who overstayed a student work visa.
His adoptive parents have been accused of using him to get state handouts.
Stephayne and Michael Potts allegedly put him down on welfare forms in a bid to get taxpayer-funded food and medical assistance, even though they knew their son's true identity.
According to ABC News 27, they also knowingly made false statements to the Dauphin County Assistance Office in Pennsylvania and took around $13,000.
They were both charged with harboring an illegal alien from March 2013 through August 2015.
They say Artur told them he used forged documents to get into the United States, but they believed him when he told them was 14 years old.
The pair claim they planned to take him to the authorities when he turned 18 but changed their plan when he returned from Naval Sea Cadet training and 'started closing his door and talking to somebody in Russian'.
They then turned him in to the FBI in November 2015.