Former DeSoto County priest-in-training pleads guilty to child sexual abuse material
Jonathan Tu Nguyen-Vuong pleaded guilty to child exploitation for uploading and downloading child sexual abuse material, according to the DeSoto County District Attorney’s Office. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The former seminarian now faces decades in prison.
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Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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