{"id":154033,"date":"2026-03-05T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:01:06","slug":"brooklyn-public-school-teacher-arrested-for-sexully-abusing-16-year-old-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154033\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn public school teacher arrested for sexully abusing 16-year-old student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn public school teacher has been arrested for sexually abusing a 16-year-old student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Schnee, 48, is facing charges of forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse for the incident inside his Coney Island school.<\/p>\n<p>The victim claimed Schnee inappropriately touched her leg and made her feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Cops arrested Schnee at the school about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. The name of the school and the date of the alleged incident were not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seethroughny.net\/payrolls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earned $140,000 working for the Department of Education last year<\/a>, according to the website SeeThruNY.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>An email to the Department of Education for comment was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn public school teacher has been arrested for sexually abusing a 16-year-old student, police said Thursday. Steven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-154033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}