The son of an elderly couple swindled by accused pervy teacher Winston Nguyen is outraged the “Jeopardy!” champ ex-con was hired by an elite Brooklyn private school where authorities said he catfished teens for child porn. No one from Saint Ann’s School ever contacted the family of Bernard Stoll — the blind 96-year-old man who testified that Nguyen stole $300,000 from him while working as a home health aide — before they hired Nguyen as a math teacher at the Brooklyn Heights school in 2020, said Stoll’s son Rand Stoll.Gay porno Rand Stoll said he didn’t even know until Nguyen’s recent arrest on child porn charges that the former home health aide had been working as a teacher. “If I was contacted he never would have been hired,” Stoll told The Post. “It’s incredible to me that no one did their due diligence.” Rand Stoll’s befuddlement adds to growing questions about Saint Ann’s vetting process when they employed Nguyen, who served a four-month jail sentence in Rikers Island in 2019 for using Bernard and Florence Stoll’s credit cards as a personal piggy bank. Nguyen lied to Saint Ann’s about his teaching experience, claiming on his resume that he worked at three different schools in various roles, New York Magazine reported Wednesday. Students at Saint Ann’s discovered Nguyen’s criminal past — which was extensively reported in The Post — during the 2021-22 school year, NY Mag reported. The revelation prompted school officials to notify parents for the first time that they knowingly hired an ex-con to teach their children, according to the report. Saint Ann’s later tapped Nguyen to teach a seminar called Crime & Punishment, the magazine reported. But while Saint Ann’s seemingly downplayed Nguyen’s offense as a “financial crime,” Rand Stoll said it was a profound betrayal that destroyed his family. While Nguyen made himself indispensable to the Stolls over the years, he used the Upper East Side couple’s bank account and credit cards to buy ballet tickets, pay for Florida vacations and a long list of Amazon purchases, according to Rand Stoll and prosecutors. Bernard Stoll’s nephew, who also spoke with The Post, confirmed Rand Stoll’s account of Nguyen ingratiating himself with the family and betraying their trust. Florence Stoll died in 2018, followed by Bernard Stoll in 2019. “He’s a phony, he embezzled,” Rand Stoll said. “He’s just a menace to society and I’m glad he’s caught.” Stoll found it “absurd” that Nguyen — who competed on “Jeopardy” twice in 2014, winning one episode — would be allowed to work with young students. “Look at what he did, f–king pornography,” he said, among other invectives. “The f—king guy is out of his f—king mind.” When The Post last week tried to contact Nguyen, reporters found his Harlem apartment directly overlooked a playground. Neighbor Nieve Rosa, 22, told The Post that she worried for her toddlers as the boy and girl romped around in the playground. “We come to the park and we don’t want a predator out here looking at our children,” she said. “He shouldn’t be in this community. We’re out here with our kids every day.” Nguyen is accused of posing as a teenager on Snapchat, engaging in hundreds of sexualized chats and trolling six teens as young as 13 — from four private schools in Brooklyn, including Saint Ann’s — for nudes and videos of sexual performances. He faces 30 criminal counts and is free on $30,000 bail. Nguyen’s attorney Frank Rothman said he’d contact Nguyen over the accusations he lied about his teaching experience. He said he expects to view the evidence for the child porn accusations in the coming weeks. Saint Ann’s officials didn’t return The Post’s repeated requests for comment. In June, they said Nguyen was placed on leave. “They have to fire people,” Rand Stoll said. “It’s just a whole bad reflection of Saint Ann’s.” Additional reporting by Aneeta Bhole and Jack Morphet Advertisement
Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Bruce