More Than 100 NYC Educators Accused of Sexual Relationships, Communications with Students as DOE Finally Mulls a Crackdown; NYC High School Teacher Masturbated On Camera After Students Left Remote Class, Probe Finds

More than 100 NYC educators accused of sexual relationships, communications with students as DOE finally mulls a crackdown:

Dozens of New York City educators have been accused of having inappropriate, often sexual relationships and communications with students, with some requesting nude snaps or plying them with money, gifts or drugs, newly released records show.

Thirty-two more cases of educators and other school staffers engaged in improper communications with kids were substantiated by the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation — boosting the total to at least 121 cases from 2018 to 2024, up from 89 tallied in May, according to reports released to The Post.

Special Commissioner Anastasia Coleman has recommended 54 times from 2019 to 2023 that the city Department of Education prohibit all employees from contacting students using personal cell phone numbers, social media accounts, or other apps.

The DOE repeatedly rejected the recommendation but told The Post it may finally tighten the rules.

Among allegations in the newly revealed cases:

• Daniel Matuk allegedly began communicating with one of his 15-year-old graphic design students at William Cullen Bryant HS in Queens in 2020, exchanging over 700 messages between 2022 and 2023, investigators found. Matuk texted about her “brown ass” and “little butt,” and called her “b—h” and “whore.” Matuk would force the junior to hug him in his empty classroom. “I blocked Daniel Matuk’s number after graduation, but have been living with trauma because of what had happened,” she told investigators. SCI said he was “grooming” her. He collected $112,191 in FY 2024. 

• Anthony Schiliro, a history teacher at the elite Eleanor Roosevelt HS in Manhattan, sent “excessive” late-night texts to three female students, investigators found. On one occasion, he joked about one student having sex in front of the other two. 

• Jorge Luna, a social studies teacher at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, repeatedly texted and called a female student starting when she was a freshman, and made inappropriate comments on her Instagram even after being disciplined for his communications with her. In 2020, Luna called the girl on FaceTime at midnight to wish her a happy birthday, according to SCI. In 2022, he commented on her breasts, and her “sexy” legs in a photo and wrote, “you should have opened” them, the girl told investigators. Luna collected $111,738 in 2023-24. 

• Steven Perez, a social studies teacher at Fort Hamilton HS in Brooklyn, texted one of his students about his “girlfriend problems” and child support, calling her “sweety” and “beautiful” from when she was 15, investigators found. He’d give her cigarettes and oil for vaping, and once tried to kiss her after driving her home. He was arrested in December 2021, but the Brooklyn DA declined to prosecute. 

• Ellen Huynh, a teacher at the Civic Leadership Academy in Queens, exchanged more than 9,000 texts with a male student between 2022 and 2023, including hundreds after 9 pm and on weekends. Witnesses, including teachers, told investigators they saw the two hugging alone in a classroom with the door shut, and in a park together. The student refused to tell investigators about their conversations but said “there was no sex.” She collected $80,701 in 2023-24.

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NYC high school teacher masturbated on camera after students left remote class, probe finds:

He’s the Jeffrey Toobin of Big Apple schools.

Robert Torres, a teacher at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, masturbated while on camera in a Google Meet, shocking a fellow educator who witnessed it, the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation found.

A video showed Torres, 48, “with his pants down, conducting masturbatory activity,” according to a just-released report by the city schools investigator.

The disturbing behavior, which the report says occurred on Nov. 3, 2020, was one of the most bizarre incidents to occur during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were closed and instruction took place online.

Torres was remotely co-teaching a class with about 15 students.

After the teens were dismissed, the two teachers were required to stay online for another 30 minutes in case any students logged back on with questions.

One teacher then noticed Torres “had his pants down and appeared to be masturbating,” the SCI report says.

The fellow teacher was “shocked,” and “instinctively recorded the incident on his cellphone,” it says.

The video was given to police, but the NYPD closed the case after determining that no students witnessed the act, the SCI says. No criminal charges were filed. —>READ MORE HERE

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