
Brooklyn teacher had sex with female students, took them to sex clubs: prosecutors
Sex maniac Sean Shaynak, 44, who taught math and physics at Brooklyn Technical High School, also allegedly handed out good grades to one student he was having a sexual relationship with and sent thousands of text messages to another. He faces 36 counts of kidnapping and criminal sex acts against girls ages 13 to 19.
A sex-crazed Brooklyn teacher had trysts with multiple female students, took them to sex clubs and nude beaches and handed out straight As for a girl he was sleeping with, prosecutors charged Tuesday.
The disgusting debauchery of Sean Shaynak, 44, came to light after the Brooklyn Technical High School math and physics teacher was charged in August with sending a penis picture to a 16-year-old student.
But that was only the tip of his perverted misdeeds, according to a newly unsealed, 36-count indictment that includes counts of kidnapping and criminal sexual act against girls ages 13 to 19.
“We discovered six additional students,” Assistant District Attorney Joseph Mancino said in Brooklyn Supreme Court as he laid out the charges. “The defendant, clearly from his actions, looked to groom these students.”
Shaynak took a 15-year-old girl without permission to a nude beach in New Jersey and, at his home, plied her with vodka, tequila and whisky until she passed out, Mancino said.
The two exchanged some 10,000 text messages and her teacher asked her to participate in lesbian sex with another student.
He gave another student 100s “regardless of the fact she did not do any assignments and left tests blank,” Mancino said.
The girl resisted when the sex became too kinky, he added, but the teacher forced himself anyway.
With yet another teen, Shaynak allegedly carried on a “four-month sexual relationship” that included him taking her to an out-of-state gay sex club and having her watch him “serviced” by men, a source said.
He also took her to what was described as “a terror ride” from Queens to Brooklyn that ended with her hiding in the bushes as he screamed and banged on his car, charged Mancino.
“He threatened to tell her parents,” the ADA added.
The teacher also sent the full frontal photo to four students and when investigators searched his computer, they uncovered pornographic images, including bestiality, according to prosecutors.
"It is shocking that a public high school teacher allegedly sexually preyed on vulnerable students,” Brooklyn district attorney Kenneth Thompson said in a statement. We will now seek to vindicate the rights of those students."
The criminal conduct started in the fall of 2012 and continued until this summer, court papers say. The teacher is facing 25 years in prison for the top charge, but can get a lot more for the multiple incidents.
Shaynak, of Flatbush, has been teaching for five years at the Fort Greene attended by Mayor de Blasio’s son Dante, although a student told The News that he did not take classes with him.
"Some people were aware of it. They said that they saw it coming, that he was a perv — the way he looked at girls,” said Tangina Ahmed, 16, a junior at the school. “I find that really gross.
Others were surprised by the allegations against the amateur pilot who ran an aerospace after-school club.
Defense lawyer Kimberly Summers pleaded not guilty on his behalf.
“My client maintains his innocence on all these charges,” she told the judge.
She claimed that one student “was working on a project with him, which would explain the voluminous text message” and noted that the divorced father has a 9-year-old girl, which would give him incentive to return to court.
The teacher’s bail was set at $1 million bond.
He has been previously assigned to the rubber room, where he continued to collect a $52,744-a-year salary.
"These alleged actions are completely unacceptable and have no place in, or outside of, our schools,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Devora Kaye. “He is not, and will not be, in contact with students. Student safety remains our top priority."
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