Teach ‘extorted’

Sex-rap boy ‘repeatedly asked for money’: lawyer

A BROOKLYN high school teacher charged with sexually abusing a student may be the victim of an extortion plot, his defense lawyer claims.

Mervyn Affoon, 52, is accused of groping and later sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy in his apartment and at the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Erasmus High School. The alleged abuse began in February and continued for several months.

“The complaining witness in this case was asking for money repeatedly for his little brother, for dance classes,” defense attorney Andrew Stoll told Judge Lorna McAllister at Affoon’s Brooklyn Criminal Court arraignment Tuesday night. “A fellow student suggested that he could make a lot of money through a lawsuit, and that’s when these allegations were made.”