NYC school teacher stalked 13-year-old girls online — when they blocked him, his act of sickening revenge shocked everyone

Last year, a private school teacher in New York City was accused by two teens, who were both 13 at the time, of distributing naked images of them across their school as an act of revenge after they blocked him online. Winston Nguyen has already been convicted of the crime but his victims are now suing the school which they claim silenced them and actively protected Nguyen.

Nguyen, who is also a former Jeopardy winner, is currently serving a seven year sentence for his crimes. He was convicted in Spring last year but for a long time his crimes went unpunished as Saint Anne’s School allegedly retaliated against anyone who tried to sound the alarm about the situation according to the New York Post.

The crimes of Winston Nguyen

Nguyen was hired as a math teacher by the school, but it is alleged that the school failed to perform a basic background check on him because at this point he had served time in prison for stealing $300,000 from a blind elderly individual.

According to the lawsuit, Nguyen used school resources to target the young girls and eventually made a fake social media account where he posed as a boy of the same age as his victims. He then proceeded to send them explicit images of himself, including pictures of himself masturbating. He also fantasized about how he would ask the teens for oral sex and asked them to send nude photos in return.

Eventually the girls blocked the account which led to Nguyen sending “a revenge porn blast with dozens of explicit pictures” to other students at the school in the middle of the school day.

The response from the school

While Nguyen was convicted last year, the current lawsuit seeks justice over Saint Anne’s alleged failure to act on behalf of the students. According to the lawsuit, when the school found out what was going on, a meeting was organized with students but it “took no other steps to help,” and even refused to report the incident to the police.

The lawsuit accuses the school of “recklessly hiring” Nguyen without doing an adequate background check, and then continued “empowering him” to get away with his crimes while “entrusting him with the access and property that he used to perpetrate his crimes.” 

The incident certainly shouldn’t have been allowed to get this far and Nguyen should have been instantly reported to the police as soon as his victims spoke out. The lawsuit pins a large portion of the blame on Saint Anne’s School, suggesting his abuse could have been stopped sooner or never happened at all had other staff members been more vigilant and kept the student’s wellbeing in mind.