New details revealed in Giardini case

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The FBI obtained the search warrant to search former Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Steve Giardini's home in April of 2009. The affidavit indicates the focus of the search was a house on Dauphin Street owned by Giardini.

But the document includes more than a list of what the FBI was looking for, it also tells why.

In the seven page warrant, FBI special agent Arthur Roche said he was posing as a 15-year-old female named Diana Gautier from Daphne, Alabama, when he met "Steven" in an online chat room.

It was the beginning of a three-and-a-half month relationship involving telephone and online communications between "Steven" and the officer posing as Diana.

According to the document, a picture Giardini allegedly sent to Diana matched the drivers license photo of S.G.

In the warrant the FBI agent also says, "Steven" asked Diana "if she had become serious enough with anyone in dating to have sex."

"Steven" said he wants to kiss her.

In one telephone conversation "Steven" told Diana "to go lay down in her bed while he said he was laying down in his."

In the document "Steven" stated that he was at his home when they were communicating online. He said he was "online in the evenings and at lunch, because he goes home from work to eat lunch."

Giardini spent a lot of time at work at the Child Advocacy Center where he was the assigned prosecutor handling cases involving sexually abused children.

According to the warrant, "Steven" had arranged to meet the girl on the same day FBI agents raided Giardini's home on April 4, 2009.

The Alabama Attorney General's office is handing the prosecution in the Giardini case.

The former Assistant D.A. is free on a $250 thousand bond.

Click here to read the affidavit.