Philly teacher sentenced to nearly 39 years for catfishing students, sharing their explicit photos [View all]

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(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.