A former teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights on Monday admitted to enticing teenage students to send him images and of sexual performances and nudity.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Monday said that Winston Nguyen, 38, a former math teacher at Saint Ann's, pleaded guilty to use of a child in a sexual performance as a sexually motivated felony and five counts of endangering the welfare of a child in exchange for a seven-year prison sentence and sex offender registration.
With this plea, the defendant admitted to enticing or trying to entice six teenage students from four Brooklyn independent schools to send him images of nudity and sexual performances, according to a press release.
According to the investigation, Nguyen pretended to be a young teen and fellow student when engaging in conversations of a sexual nature over the messaging application Snapchat.
The charged incidents took place between October 2022 and May 2024, when the victims were between the ages of 13 and 15 years old. The defendant used two Snapchat accounts, hunterkristoff and haircutbongos, to contact the victims, pretending to be a teenage boy. The defendant sent nude images and videos that depicted a teenage boy masturbating to the victims. The defendant also used the accounts to engage in prolonged conversations that described and depicted various sexual acts and got the victims to send images and videos of the victims engaged in sexual performance to him through the Snapchat accounts.
