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'Jeopardy!' champ Winston Nguyen who was arrested on child porn arraigned in Brooklyn court
Winston Nguyen — an ex-con who has already spent time behind bars — kept his eyes lowered as he was escorted out of Brooklyn Criminal Court by his attorney Frank Rothman.“He has nothing to say. Not a word,” Rothman said.
Nguyen kept tight-lipped even as he arrived home — alone — to his Harlem apartment when asked to comment on the sickening allegations.‘Bogeyman’ burglar jailed after being found under boy’s bed wearing the child’s pants“Oh, lock his ass up and throw away the key,” said a 32-year-old Brooklyn man who was visiting a friend at Nguyen’s building. “It’s not right to do that to kids, you really mess up their minds for life. Those children will never be right after having experienced that.”Nguyen walked out of court after a judge set his bail at $30,000. He faces 30 charges of use of a child in a sexual performance and promoting a sexual performance, among other felonies.Sicko ‘Jeopardy!’ champ, teacher at posh NYC private school catfished multiple students, lured them into sending X-rated photos: DA Some of his alleged victims — six kids between the ages of 13 and 15 — were even students at the posh institution. The rest attended other ritzy Brooklyn schools: Berkeley Carroll School, Packer Collegiate Institute, and Poly Prep Country Day School. The alleged catfishing spree spanned from October 2022 to May, during which time Nguyen allegedly used his teenager ruse at least 11 times, prosecutors said. Nguyen didn’t appear to meet any of the kids in person, but lured the teens into sending him nude or sexually graphic images, prosecutors allege.He was dramatically arrested last month in front of a crowd of students at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, where he taught math to students whose parents pay upward of $60,000 a year in tuition.Nguyen, who won an episode of “Jeopardy!” in 2014, spent six months in prison for stealing $300,000 from an elderly couple.The one-time 2014 “Jeopardy!” winner had been teaching at St. Ann’s School since 2020 — just one year after he was sprung from Rikers Island for used the cash to buy ballet tickets and a trip to Florida.Rothman said that he expects that Nguyen’s child porn arrest will be a violation of probation in his Manhattan case. Fired 'Mandalorian' actor Gina Carano 'moved to tears' after victory against Disney in her Elon Musk-funded lawsuitWhy Trump doesn't want the 25th Amendment invoked against BidenOprah Winfrey and Gayle King address longstanding lesbian rumors: ‘If we were gay we would tell you!’Gabriella Bass Nguyen, who won an episode of"Jeopardy!" in 2014, spent six months in prison for stealing $300,000 from an elderly couple.
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