a former baseball coach At a luxurious Brooklyn private school On Thursday, he was accused of sexually abusing seven children, including one under the age of 13, police said.
Nicholas Morton, 31, who worked at the $60,000-a-year Packer Collegiate Institute, was arrested and arraigned Thursday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on multiple sex crime charges.
Police said the allegations ranged from sexual abuse to sexual conduct with a child under the age of 13 and forcibly touching the children’s intimate parts.
A source familiar with the situation said that Morton allegedly asked boy baseball players to pull their pants down in front of him.
He worked at the tony K-12 private school in Brooklyn Heights as the varsity baseball coach and in its admissions office until August, when administrators emailed parents that he was fired, as the Post previously reported .
The bombshell email said the school had received reports that Morton had engaged in a pattern of inappropriate conversations and interactions with both Packer and non-Packer athletes associated with his private travel baseball team.
Morton is also a Packer alumnus and was a star baseball player for the school’s team, where he was an Under Armor Pre-Season All-American and was named to MSG Varsity’s top 10 list of best baseball players, according to the now-deleted Website for his own private baseball traveling team, NYC Freedom Baseball.
The site states he attended Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and Washington & Jefferson College in Pittsburgh, where he played baseball.
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