ST. LOUIS (MO)
Fox 2

April 18, 2014, by Vera Culley

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – A St. Louis priest has turned himself into police after new allegations of abuse surfaced. The Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline received new allegations of misconduct with a minor against Father Joseph Jiang.

Now the St. Louis police are applying for warrants.

Jiang voluntarily surrendered on Thursday pending a decision on whether charges will be brought against him.

Back in November, a judge thew out the child endangerment charges against Father Jiang in a separate case in which he was accused of molesting a teenage girl from Franklin County.

In a statement posted to the St. Louis Archdiocese website, the Archdiocese says Jiang’s canonical privileges have been revoked while police investigate the allegations. That is standard protocol for the Archdiocese of St. Louis.