Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Wednesday announced that a former math teacher, who pleaded guilty to charges that he posed as a teenager on Snapchat to solicit nude images and sexual videos from children, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
The defendant, Winston Nguyen, 38, admitted to enticing or trying to entice teenage students from four Brooklyn private schools to send him images of nudity and sexual performances, according to a press release.
A former teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, Nguyen pretended to be a young teen and fellow student when engaging in conversations of a sexual nature over the messaging application Snapchat.
“This was a sickening betrayal of trust by a schoolteacher who solicited students into sending him graphic and nude photos," said Gonzalez. "Today’s sentencing holds him accountable for his actions while sparing the young and vulnerable victims from having to relive this emotional abuse in court."
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.
According to the investigation, the two Snapchat accounts were connected to IP addresses associated with the defendant, including his Harlem residence, other evidence includes digital communications and images and accounts from victims.
Nguyen must register as a sex offender upon his release.
