RENTON, Wash. — A paraeducator at the Renton School District has been charged for alleged groping and inappropriately messaging with a former student.
According to probable cause documents, 36-year-old Quan Nguyen, a career advisor at Hazen High School, began talking with the victim when she was a student back in 2022.
Court documents say Nguyen would take the victim and classmates to get food or go to trading card shops because they were in a Pokémon club. The docs allege that Nguyen drove the teen alone more frequently than in a group setting.
The conversations then turned sexual in nature, according to court documents.
The victim told investigators that Nguyen started asking for nude photos of her, and asked her to re-enact sexually explicit books she read over the phone, docs said.
She also told investigators that she was about 16 years old when he allegedly groped her and touched her over her clothing inappropriately, according to court documents.
“[The victim] stated that she was confronted by two friends who stated they felt uncomfortable with how much time she spent at the career center and with Nguyen. She ignored their concerns. It wasn’t until later on she confided in a counselor who stated that she should report it. She had always felt responsible for what was happening and didn’t fully understand how wrong it really was,” court documents said.
According to court documents, the victim is now 19 and in college and came forward to investigators this month.
Nguyen has been booked into King County Jail with bail set at $20,000.
He was charged with communication with a minor for immoral purposes and second-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.
KIRO 7 has reached out to the district for a statement.
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