ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Joel Currier
ST. LOUIS • The Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang, a Roman Catholic priest whose charges of sexual abuse of a boy were dropped this month, has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was unfairly targeted by police, the city and advocates for sexual abuse victims.
Jiang claims in the suit filed Thursday in St. Louis that false abuse accusations were the result of religious and ethnic discrimination and that he was denied due process under the constitution and defamed by a group that seeks justice for victims of abuse by priests.
The lawsuit names the accuser’s parents — by initials only — along with St. Louis police officers Tonya Porter, Jaimie Pitterle, the city of St. Louis, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and its leaders David Clohessy and Barbara Dorris.
Dorris called the lawsuit “a desperate move to try to intimidate other victims, witnesses and whistle-blowers into keeping silent. We hope it will backfire.”
Jiang was accused of molesting a boy in 2011 and 2012 in a bathroom of St. Louis the King School, the elementary school at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce dropped the charges this month without explanation.
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