MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Richard Chin
rchin@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 12/12/2014
Steven Joseph Schulz, a Golden Valley man convicted of felony online solicitation of a minor for sex, was sentenced Friday in St. Paul to 30 days in jail and probation for five years.
Schulz, 56, corresponded online with someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy. The boy actually was an undercover St. Paul police sergeant who responded to a Craigslist ad that Schulz had posted.
The police set up a sting and Schulz was arrested when he arrived with Red Bull and vodka at what he thought would be a rendezvous with the boy at an address on St. Paul’s East Side in April 2013.
At his trial in Ramsey County District Court, Schulz testified that he himself was molested as a child at the hands of a priest, and that he wanted to meet the boy he corresponded with to warn him away from the fate he suffered.
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