A former math trainer at an upscale non-public faculty in Brooklyn and one-time “Jeopardy!” champion was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in jail on expenses that he posed as an adolescent on Snapchat to solicit nude pictures and sexual movies from youngsters.
Winston Nguyen, 38, had pleaded responsible earlier this month to at least one rely of use of a kid in a sexual efficiency as a sexually motivated felony and 5 counts of endangering the welfare of a kid. He must register as a intercourse offender after his launch.
Prosecutors mentioned Nguyen, who taught at Saint Ann’s College within the tony Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, pretended to be a teenage boy on Snapchat and himself despatched nude pictures and movies to youngsters and obtained the kids to ship illicit materials again to him.
The kids, who went to numerous faculties within the metropolis, have been between the ages of 13 and 15 when the messaging occurred.
“This was a sickening betrayal of belief by a schoolteacher who solicited college students into sending him graphic and nude pictures,” Brooklyn District Lawyer Eric Gonzalez mentioned in an announcement.
Nguyen appeared on “Jeopardy!” in 2014.
