Brooklyn Teacher Indicted For Sexual Abuse Of Teen Boy, DA Says

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn high school teacher was charged with the repeated sexual abuse of a teenaged student, prosecutors said.

Mervyn Affoon, a 66-year-old business teacher at Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush, was arraigned on a 25-count indictment for the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

Affoon groped his young victim three times — twice in an elevator and once in a classroom — at the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at 911 Flatbush Ave. in 2017, The District Attorney said.

The business teacher also stands accused of bringing the student to his East Flatbush apartment where he “engaged in sex acts” several times between March and June, prosecutors said.

The city launched an investigation and arrested Affoon when the teen told his abuse about the abuse in October, prosecutors said.

“The Department of Education must do a better job at screening and monitoring the interaction between educators and students so as to avoid such horrendous acts from occurring to other children,” Scott Rynecki, the teen’s attorney, told the New York Daily News. The teen’s family had filed an $11 million notice of claim against the city, he added.

Affoon — who was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal sexual act, sexual misconduct, and promoting a sexual performance by a child — was ordered to return to court on May 15 after bail was set at $50,000, prosecutors said.

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