Brooklyn Tech Teacher Who Allegedly Sent Explicit Photo Charged With Victimizing Six More Teenage Girls
A Brooklyn Tech teacher indicted this summer for sending a 16-year-old student a lewd photograph has found himself in more trouble, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
44-year-old Sean Shaynak, who until recently taught math and science at the Fort Greene school, faces 36 new charges after investigators found evidence on his computer of criminal acts involving six other girls ages 13 to 19. The DA says two phones and three computers in Shaynak’s possession revealed hundreds of incriminating photographs and videos, as well as thousands of text messages.
From 2011 to 2014, Shaynak is alleged to have:
- Performed a sex act on an 18-year-old student without her consent
- Taken a 15-year-old student to a nude beach in New Jersey without her parents’ consent
- Sent photos of his genitals to four students, two of whom were minors
- Engaged in consensual sex acts with one 18- and one 19-year-old student
- Kissed and inappropriately touched students (including grabbing the buttocks of a minor)
- Requested two minor girls engage in sex with each other
- Given alcohol and cigarettes to minors
Shaynak was arrested again upon showing up this morning for a day in court related to charges filed in August. New charges against him include:
- 12 counts of endangering the welfare of a child
- Six counts of official misconduct
- Four counts of third-degree obscenity
- Two counts of forcible touching
- Two counts of first-degree disseminating indecent material
- First-degree sexual abuse
- First-degree unlawful imprisonment
- Two counts of second-degree unlawful imprisonment
- Second-degree kidnapping
- First- and third-degree criminal sexual act
Shaynak is also charged with menacing and reckless endangerment “for allegedly terrorizing an ex-student with whom he had a prior relationship,” and with resisting arrest following last month’s collaring, during which Shaynak reportedly told a detective, “F*** you, I’m not going anywhere.”
Shaynak’s bail relating to the August charges has been reset at $100,000 cash or $250,000 bond, with his bail relating to new charges set at $500,000 cash or $750,000 bond. He faces up to seven years in prison for last month’s charges, and up to 25 for the new ones.