Brooklyn Technical HS teacher Sean Shaynak wooed a student by giving A’s to blank papers she handed in, but he did teach her one lesson: how to seduce instructors, a lawsuit alleges.
Shaynak advised girls to “put their hands on a teacher’s thigh” and see what happens, charges a suit filed yesterday against the city Department of Education.
The girl, identified as “S.S.,” is the second to accuse the DOE of failing to prevent Shaynak’s alleged serial sexual harassment and abuse.
Shaynak, 44, flaunted skimpy French maid and Britney Spears costumes at senior Halloween dances, and brazenly flirted and hung out with girls.
The suit, filed in Brooklyn federal court, tells how Shaynak, a licensed pilot who ran an aeronautics program prized by Principal Randy Asher, exploited his popularity.
S.S. had Shaynak’s 11th-grade physics lab class in the 2011-12 school year, when he began “grooming and manipulating S.S. to gain her trust,” the suit says.
Shaynak “allowed S.S. to turn in blank assignments, filling in only her name, for which Shaynak would give S.S. perfect grades.”
Known to smoke cigarettes with a bevy of girls outside the Fort Greene school, Shaynak would turn the discussions to sex.
“On one particular occasion, Shaynak gave S.S. and a group of other students advice on how to have sexual relationships with other teachers, advising they should ‘put their hands on a teacher’s thigh.’”
Shaynak “routinely gave S.S. long, intense . . . hugs in which he would press his pelvis against S.S. in school,” making her feel uncomfortable, the suit says.
In the spring of 2013, Shaynak walked with S.S. after school one day. During the walk, Shaynak “made sexual jokes and convinced S.S. first to accompany him to his subway stop, and then to Shaynak’s home.”
In his apartment, Shaynak “stood in front of S.S., took his pants off, pulled out his penis, and inserted it into S.S.’s mouth.”
In January, the first student to sue over Shaynak, “V.V.,” described a terrifying Halloween date with Shaynak, dressed in drag, who drove recklessly and screamed, “Bitch!” as she hid from him in bushes.
Both suits, filed by lawyer Jeff Herman, charge violations of Title IX, a federal law forbidding sex harassment in schools. The DOE has yet to respond.
Last Sept. 30, Shaynak was indicted on 36 counts, including criminal sex acts against six girls between 2011 and 2014. He has pleaded not guilty and remains jailed in Rikers Island.