Priest, father, teacher facing charges of traveling to meet a minor for sex (Florida)

[Baitball Blogger]

(Note: Winter Springs priest. This is just the icing on the cake when it comes to corrupt community leaders in this city.)

Gerald Shriner, 46, spent the last month talking online to someone he thought was a child, deputies say. He was arrested Friday when he went to meet that child for sex, deputies say.

Shriner is a teacher at The Geneva School, a Christian school on State Road 436 in Winter Park, and an Episcopalian priest assisting at New Covenant Anglican Church in Winter Springs and the father of two minors.

Ginette Rodriguez, spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, said in a release Shriner first contacted an OCSO detective he thought was a child on May 17, and after a month of email exchanges, planned to meet for sex in Winter Springs.

He was arrested at 9:30 a.m., and The Geneva School administration and the Department of Children and Families were notified of his arrest.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-15/news/os-priest-father-teacher-internet-sex-minor-20120615_1_episcopalian-priest-christian-school-teacher

[Nevernose]

1. Being a father and a teacher, these cases tear at me

On the one hand, this guy is creepy as hell and does not need to be anywhere near children.

On the other hand, he didn't have sex with a minor, nor was there ever a minor in danger. It's purely a thought crime. It's like arresting someone for plotting the assassination of the president of Narnia.

[redqueen]

2. It stopped being a thought crime when he showed up there. nt

[Lars39]

3. What began as thought became motion. He went to arranged destination to act on those thoughts.

[4th law of robotics]

6. Eh, the president of narnia isn't real

molesting children is sadly all too real.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. It should certainly be enough to lose him his position as priest and teacher

As you say, he cannot be trusted anywhere near children.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. I never thought the priest pedophilia phenomenon was

limited to the Catholic church. It would be smart if the authorities recognized that community leaders have been abusing their lofty positions for some time. Pedophilia is just the worst of these crimes.

[jberryhill]

4. Style tip - not everyone lives in Florida...

So, if "Winter Springs" is not immediately recognizable, the first clue is "Orange County" some paragraphs down, which places the story in either California or Florida. That dilemma is only resolved in reading the URL at the bottom, which is to the Orlando Sentinel. However, since newspapers report stories from all over, it's still something of a piece of detective work to figure out the riddle of "Where did this happen?"

[Baitball Blogger]

5. two counties.

Winter Park is in Orange County, Florida

Winter Springs is in Seminole County. Same county where the Trayvon situation takes place. It's also the same City where the Ponzi Schemer lived who was just sentenced to a multiple number of years. A lot of shady things take place in Winter Springs, in my opinion, because of the style of government. It is what I believe to be a model where Republicans will eventually take this country. Government is overtaken by a business sector through organizations like the Rotary Club in the nineties and the Chamber currently. And when they get involved in something BIG that blows up, lawyers are generally involved, making it near impossible for the victims to find recourse through normal channels. MHO.

[jberryhill]

8. The point is...

When posting a story from a local paper, it wouldn't kill you to put "Florida" somewhere up top.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Point taken.

[TexasProgresive]

11. plus a million!

I hope everyone takes your advice.

[jberryhill]

12. People from Portland usually don't

And people from Arlington are even worse.

That's why I generally ignore people from Montgomery County, Jefferson County, Orange County, and a bunch of others.

[beach-bum]

16. Despicable

BTW was it a boy or girl he was after? Just curious!

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Geneva? Is that a private school?

[beach-bum]

20. Geneva? Is that a private school?

Yes - it is a private school.

[kenito001]

21. reply

Accused? Yes. Cover-up at Geneva? I do not know. Cover-up at his *former* church? Yes.

[Initech]

19. What is it with the family values crowd and sex crimes??

This guy, Ted Haggard, are these people really so oppressed that they can't be truly open about who they are - and by going tp great lengths tp hide it - they get themselves in really deep and disturbing shit?