A former math instructor at an upscale personal college in Brooklyn and one-time “Jeopardy!” champion was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in jail on prices that he posed as a teen on Snapchat to solicit nude pictures and sexual movies from kids.
Winston Nguyen, 38, had pleaded responsible earlier this month to 1 depend 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 stated Nguyen, who taught at Saint Ann’s Faculty within the tony Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, pretended to be a teenage boy on Snapchat and himself despatched nude pictures and movies to kids and acquired the youngsters to ship illicit materials again to him.
The kids, who went to numerous colleges within the metropolis, had 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 Legal professional Eric Gonzalez stated in a press release.
Nguyen appeared on “Jeopardy!” in 2014.
