Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pressuring students from several private schools to send him lewd images.
Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pressuring students from several private schools to send him lewd images.
Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pressuring students from several private schools to send him lewd images.
Two students who were manipulated into sending naked photographs to Winston Nguyen, a teacher at Saint Ann’s School, expressed their horror, humiliation and enduring pain in letters read aloud at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday.
“You begged for sexually explicit images of me to the point where I felt trapped,” one victim wrote, in a statement delivered by the prosecutor. “You wouldn’t take no for an answer.”
The other student wrote, “I have no idea if the people that I meet have seen my naked body.” She added that “I was at a mental low” when Mr. Nguyen, who was pretending to be a teenage boy, approached her online and that they engaged in a close relationship.
Now aware that Mr. Nguyen was not who he portrayed himself to be and that he shared her photographs with countless others online, she described feeling terrified that classmates — and college admissions officers — would learn that she was “the girl who sent nudes to the teacher.”
In Brooklyn criminal court, Judge Masateru Marubashi sentenced Mr. Nguyen, 38, to seven years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervision. He also must register as a sex offender and pay about $1,400 in fines.
Mr. Nguyen pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of using a child in a sexual performance and five separate counts, representing five children, of “knowingly acting in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than 17 years.”