ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Susan Weich sweich@post-dispatch.com 636-493-96742
ST. LOUIS • A Catholic priest who was previously accused of having improper contact with a teenage girl from Lincoln County has been arrested on new sex-related allegations in St. Louis.
The Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang, 30, was booked Thursday into the St. Louis Jail for statutory sodomy involving a child younger than 14. No criminal charges have been filed yet and little is known about the case.
The charges in the Lincoln County case were dismissed in November.
The accuser in that case and her family attended the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, where Jiang was associate pastor. The charges of child endangerment and witness tampering — Jiang had been accused of leaving a $20,000 check for the family as hush money — were dismissed without comment from Prosecutor Leah Askey.
Jiang has been closely tied to St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson since Jiang came to the United States as a young seminarian from China in 2006. As part of the criminal case, Carlson was questioned in a deposition.
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