Teacher at Saint Ann’s School arrested in investigation into sexual imagery

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — POLICE ARREST A MATH TEACHER AT THE PRESIDENT Saint Ann’s School to students on Thursday, June 6, during a Investigation in sexualized images shared on social media, the Daily Beast reported Friday. The Beast said that Winston Nguyen, a former Jeopardy! candidate Charged in 2017 with “diverting a large sum of money from an elderly couple to fund a lavish lifestyle,” he was hired at the highly rated Brooklyn Heights institution in 2020. A spokeswoman for Saint Ann’s told the publication, “After his arrest on Thursday, he was immediately placed on leave from the school, and he remains on leave.” She added that prosecutors have asked any families with information to come forward. “What the hell? How did we get here?” one Saint Ann parent told The Daily Beast. “What is the vetting process? What is the background process?

An internal investigation in 2019 uncovered several cases of sexual wrongdoing of school personnel over the decades—including the brilliant but notoriously promiscuous founding principal Stanley Bosworth—the New York Post reported. A 2004 New York Magazine article about Bosworth, “The Devil & Saint Ann’s,” created a sensation.

✰✰✰