Philly teacher sentenced to nearly 39 years for catfishing students, sharing their explicit photos

[FakeNoose]

(link) https://www.inquirer.com/news/andrew-wolf-sentence-springside-chestnut-hill-academy-catfishing-philly-20230216.html

By day, Andrew Wolf enjoyed a reputation as one of the most popular teachers at the elite Springside Chestnut Hill Academy — a coach to players on the middle-school baseball team, a decorated educator, and a mentor to the dozens of boys who passed through his eighth-grade classroom each year. But each night, he spent countless hours online plotting with others to exploit them.

The 42-year-old former math teacher was sentenced to nearly 39 years in federal prison Thursday for devising an elaborate catfishing scheme to trick dozens of his current and former students into sending him sexually explicit photos of themselves. And while Wolf told a federal judge he hadn’t considered at the time the harm he was inflicting on them, he was confronted in court by the mother of one victim insistent that he reckon with the damage he had done.

The woman — who did not give her full name to protect her child’s identity — said her son, a once affable and popular teen, fell into a well of shame after discovering that nude photos he’d thought he’d sent to a teenage girl were instead in the possession of his math teacher, who’d shared them with other pedophiles over the internet.

“He spiraled into depression and self-harm,” the mother said of her then 13-year-old. “He began cutting his arms to deal with the emotions he’d never experienced before.”

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I'm glad this guy is going to prison for along, long time.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. ugly crime

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Evidence uncovered by FBI agents showed that Wolf's interest had emerged years before he began teach

Evidence uncovered by FBI agents showed that Wolf’s interest had emerged years before he began teaching in 2004 at Chestnut Hill — a private K-12 campus in Northwest Philadelphia where annual tuition ranges from $32,000 to $43,000.

He spent hours communicating over encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, collecting a trove of explicit photos and videos of young boys and writing short stories detailing horrific sexual assaults of children that he posted on internet forums.

[iemanja]

3. Was Gaetz a customer?

[leftieNanner]

5. Ugh

From the article, it seems like the guy was targeting boys. Don't think that's Matt's preference. But it's all disgusting.

Wish we knew why DOJ has chosen not to go after Gaetz.

[Drum]

4. 39 years. Appropriate!

Fuck that predator. Bye bye, player.

[PCIntern]

6. Very fancy school...

Springside is the school that the murderer of the diet doctor Tarnow came from before she was a Head of school in NYC. I treated her head of school and had fascinating conversations about the teacher when she was in Philly area.

[Skittles]

7. are kids being educated about the risks of distributing "explicit photos"

seems like that would be a prudent thing to do

[Silent3]

11. Kids are educated about the dangers of many things...

…with limited impact on what they do anyway.

[Deuxcents]

8. What is wrong with some people? Teaching kids for 18 years n now this..it's sickening

The more I know, the more I don’t know that I want to know anymore.

[FakeNoose]

9. Apparently he didn't just start recently

He's been doing it for some time according to the article, but he just got caught and was fired a couple of years ago.

[Deuxcents]

10. Right..he's been teaching for 18 years.

[Emile]

12. He should have ran for congress as a republican.