New tapes released by the state attorney’s office show detectives interviewing a private Christian school teacher and Episcopal priest after he was arrested for soliciting a minor for sex.
Brian Shriner told an investigator he went online to meet the girl because he was doing research for a novel.
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Shriner: When she showed me some of the pictures, they made me uncomfortable because she looked so young. And the whole idea of her being 14.
Investigator: She was 14.
Shriner: I know. Oh my God, I swear, I don’t know how to let you know that I would never…
“I realize the level of stupidity of what I’ve done today,” Shriner told the investigator.
Investigator: You’re trying to say that the whole thing was just a research program for a novel.
Shriner: I am and I know that sounds ridiculous.
Investigator: It does.
Shriner: Oh my God, this is going to be a nightmare, then.
Investigators continued to question Shriner about why he allegedly sought out underage girls.
Investigator: So what you’re trying to say, you as the writer, got online, you subjected yourself, made a yahoo account. Get online, purposely waited until you found an underage girl.
Shriner: I talked to several of them. Didn’t meet any of them. This girl, she clearly had said, I have done things before.
Shriner told investigators he just wanted to talk.
Shriner: You notice that I told her I wasn’t going to meet her unless we were just going to chill out and talk.
Investigator: Talk and then if more happens, then more happens. And you said, ‘OK.’
Shriner: Because I wasn’t planning, I was just planning on sitting and talking with her. I know this sounds crazy.
But the investigator continued to press.
Investigator: So what sex acts were you talking about?
Shriner: I don’t because honestly, I didn’t intend to do any of them.
And still continued.
Investigator: What did you think was going to happen when you got there?
Shriner: Today? I thought we would sit down and I’d ask her questions…
Investigator: About what?
Shriner: Like, why does she prefer older men, has she ever done anything like this before?
Finally, the investigator summed up his questioning.
Investigator: Let me ask you this. Even if you showed up today, and you didn’t intend to have sex with her, which we’ve gone back and forth…
Shriner: I would have been so scared…
Investigator: Don’t you think that… hold on… don’t you think that it would be illegal to talk to a 14-year-old on a computer and ask her to have sex with you?
Shriner: Yeah, but somehow it doesn’t even seem like it’s real.
Shriner told the investigator he has four daughters, ranging in age from 12 to 22.
He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to traveling to meet a minor for sex, solicitation of a minor via computer and lewd or lascivious battery.
Shriner is out of jail on bond.
His trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 15.
