SEAN SHAYNAK |
Sean Shaynak, 44, was arraigned on sex abuse charges last month for sending nasty photos of himself to a female student. But once investigators pored through his computers and phones, they found clues he had been carrying on sexual relationships with multiple girls.
“From the additional case, we identified six additional victims,” Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Joseph Mancino said in court.
“The defendant clearly looked to groom these students.”
Shaynak’s forehead was dotted with perspiration and a bead of sweat ran down his left temple as he sat in handcuffs awaiting his arraignment.
Prosecutors described a four-month-long sexual relationship Shaynak had with another Brooklyn Tech student.
“He brought her to a sex club out of state where he performed sex acts on other people and other people performed sex acts on him in the presence of the victim,” Mancino said, adding that Shaynak bought her cigarettes and took her on a terrifying car ride during which he screamed that she couldn’t tell her parents.
Shaynak also took one teen girl to a New Jersey nude beach, gave her “Jack Daniels and tequila to the point where she passed out” at his house, and traded over 10,000 text messages with her, Mancino said.
The science teacher even gave good grades to at least some of the girls he was abusing.
“He would routinely give her 100s in his class even though she turned in work with no answers,” Mancino said of a Brooklyn Tech student whom Shaynak had sex with and also raped.
Shaynak — who has a 9-year-old daughter who lives upstate — pleaded not guilty at his Brooklyn Supreme Court appearance.
“One of them was routinely contacting him, and that might explain the voluminous text messages,” defense attorney Kim Summers said in an attempt to explain the 10,000 text messages.
Judge Martin Murphy raised Shaynak’s bail from $25,000 to a total of $1 million for all his charges.
“It is shocking that a public high school teacher allegedly sexually preyed on vulnerable students. We will now seek to vindicate the rights of those students,” Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said in a press release.
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