ST. LOUIS (MO)
The Republic
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press
April 18, 2014
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis priest previously accused of felony child endangerment and witness tampering in Lincoln County has been charged with first-degree sodomy involving another child.
St. Louis prosecutors on Friday filed two felony counts of having deviate sexual intercourse against 31-year-old Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang. He is accused of twice forcing oral sex in a Catholic school bathroom on a male victim under 14 between July 2011 and August 2012.
In a statement on its website, the Archdiocese of St. Louis said it has revoked the priest’s canonical privileges and that the abuse reported to a child safety hotline came from the family of a child who had previously complained of being bullied by classmates. The statement also said that over the past year, the family “has been pursuing a claim against the archdiocese related to their child being bullied by other students.”
“The family had never claimed that their child was abused by a priest until this this week,” the statement said.
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