ST. LOUIS (MO)
KMOV

(KMOV.com) – Authorities have issued first-degree statutory sodomy charges against Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang, 31, on Friday.

Father Joseph Jiang was arrested Thursday night and, according to police, the incidents took place on the grounds of the Cathedral Basilica, where Jiang served as an associate priest.

Jiang is accused of having deviate sexual intercourse with a male victim under 14 between July 2011 and August 2012.

A statement posted on the website for the Archdiocese of St. Louis says that the allegation against Jiang “was reported through the Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hot line by a family who over the past year has been pursuing a claim against the archdiocese related to their child being bullied by other students”.

The statement also says that, “the family had never claimed that their child was abused by a priest until this week”.

According to the…