Teenage Girl Claims Investigative Reporter Stole Her Sex Diary And Posted It On Facebook [Facebook]

A teenage girl is claiming that her father’s ex-girlfriend, a reporter, took photos of her diary (which she kept in her bedroom) and posted them on a ” Gossip Girl” -style fake Facebook page.

The reporter is Teri Buhl, an investigative reporter based out of recent Canaan, CT, who usually writes about hedge funds.

She says she was launching an investigation into teenage drinking in Connecticut, a gorgeous over-played story, but Buhl apparently wanted to show what really goes on.

In the midst of it, she’s been arrested for cyber-harassing an 18-year old girl (who’s now a student at BU) who’s also her ex-boyfriend’s (Paul Brody, the CFO of Interactive Broker) daughter.

Buhl hoped her story would print the names of the fogeys, ideally Wall Street parents, who allowed drinking in their homes. And she or he wanted to reveal the darker side of drinking in high school, too, by printing the names of high schoolers who have thrown up and had high-risk sex because they were wasted on their parents’ booze.

(For more background on her investigation and the costs against her, click here )

If her endeavor sounds creepy to you, just wait.

Sometime during Buhl’s investigation, she got a hold of 10 pages of her (ex) boyfriend’s teenage daughter’s embarrassing diary entry.

According to the New Canaan Patch :

The journal entries contain the names of the lady’s friends, in addition as references to excessive drinking, oral sex, ” puking” and ” hooking up.”

A tipster tells us that the woman also wrote about someone who was bragging about giving the correct (you know).

Buhl says she didn’t take the diary pages, one of the crucial girl’s friends gave it to her. But sometime after Buhl had the pages in hand, they appeared online, on Facebook, when someone named ” Tasha Moore” posted it on her page.

New Canaan police Youth Bureau Commander Sgt. Carol Ogrinc said in a testimony that the woman and her father, Paul Brody, came to police June 24 to report that someone using the name ‘Tasha Moore’ had posted personal notes from the woman’s journal on Facebook. 

The lady said she kept the journal in her dresser drawer in her bedroom, and that she wrote the notes shown on Facebook last April. The girl said she had replied to the e-mail address provided by Moore on her Facebook page, and had told Moore to prevent posting personal information about her or she would contact police.

So Buhl stands accused of stealing (or photocopying or taking a picture) of the lady’s diary and posting it online.

Here’s their proof. The police say they may tell ” Tasha Moore” was actually Buhl because they checked the Facebook account information. And their suspicion that Buhl stole the woman’s diary pages comes from the teenage daughter.

The girl believes Buhl went into her bedroom and either took photos of the journal entries or made photocopies of them, and posted them on Facebook, in keeping with Ogrinc.

So it’s somewhat shoddy evidence, but piecing it all together makes for one hell of a creepy storyline, true or not.

Reporter steals ex-boyfriend’s daughter’s sex diary. Reporter posts excerpts on ” Gossip Girl” -like Facebook page. 

And then the story takes a stalkerish turn, which makes us more suspicious that the police are right, and Buhl did post these comments on Facebook.

Among the comments police say Buhl made is person who says, ” It feels like she knows she made a mistake” and another asking viewers to the Facebook page to ” Help us out when you know (her) friends’ last names.”

As a reporter investigating teenage drinking in Connecticut, Buhl needed more names. Particularly last names – so that she could match them up with their Wall Street parents.

Buhl is pleading not guilty. This is her lawyers comment:

” This morning, we obtained a rather voluminous copy of the state’s file,” Caldwell said. ” Between now and Dec. 20, we’ll review the tips provided and, if necessary, ask the state to file a more particular statement as to the exact facts it claims constitutes the elements of all the crimes charged.”
He added, ” Because this example involves the criminal prosecution of a bona fide journalist working on a subject matter of serious public importance – permissive underage drinking and drug use – we’ve to take extra care to insure that the first amendment freedoms at issue are protected against an improper and chilling application of the criminal law.”

* Full disclosure: Teri Buhl has written for Business Insider.

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