Varsity baseball coach at $60,000-a-year NYC private school is arrested for sexually abusing seven children

A shot manager astatine a $60,000-a-year New York backstage schoolhouse has been accused of sexually abusing 7 children, including 1 nether 13. 

Nicolas Morton, 31, was arrested connected Thursday for intersexual behaviour and maltreatment of young athletes that helium coached connected 2 younker shot teams. 

The accusations progressive the question shot squad helium founded arsenic good arsenic the Packer Collegiate Insititute team, wherever helium was caput coach.  

Morton is accused of a agelong database of enactment crimes aft allegedly making intersexual comments to the young players, asking them to amusement him their genitalia and intimately touching them connected respective occasions. 

The boys connected his squad said they were threatened oregon pressured often into complying with Morton's demands, including being told they would beryllium chopped from the team. 

They were besides said to person been offered worldly benefits oregon allowed to halt hard grooming exercises if they exposed themselves to him, according to the District Attorney successful Kings County.

Three of the 7 victims reported that Morton had allegedly touched their genitals implicit their clothes, and 1 said helium had been touched nether their clothes. 

All 7 of the boys accused Morton of asking oregon pressuring them into showing him their genitals. They recalled that astatine astir each signifier Morton made intersexual comments, repeatedly asked to spot the boys' pubic hair, and discussed masturbation extensively. 

Morton has been arraigned earlier Brooklyn Supreme Court connected a 20-count indictment charging him with second-degree people of intersexual behaviour against a child, third-and-first-degree intersexual abuse, 13 counts of endangering the payment of a child, 2 counts of forcible touching and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. 

District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Morton's actions correspond a 'profound betrayal of trust, preying connected young athletes nether his guidance' and that the relation that coaches instrumentality connected is for 'nurturing young minds and talents, not exploiting them for idiosyncratic gratification'. 

As parents became alert of what was going connected successful July, the schoolhouse was alerted to the inappropriate behaviour and Morton was fired successful August aft having worked determination since 2019. 

Morton himself was a erstwhile postgraduate from the Packer Collegiate Insititute and was adorned arsenic a prima shot player. He went connected to play for the University of San Antonio successful Texas arsenic good arsenic the Washington & Jefferson College successful Pittsburgh. 

Morton besides co-founded the NYC Freedom question squad for children 12 and under, the website for which was seemingly removed not excessively agelong aft his dismissal, reported the New York Post. 

'The disturbing details of this lawsuit item the lasting harm specified behaviour inflicts connected susceptible youth, and we are committed to holding [Morton] afloat accountable,' Gonzalez added. 

Morton's bail was acceptable astatine $75,000 currency oregon $150,000 bond, and helium was ordered to instrumentality to tribunal successful December.