By Susan Weich
April 19, 2014
STL
ST. LOUIS • New criminal sexual abuse allegations arose Friday against a St. Louis priest with close ties to Archbishop Robert Carlson.
Prosecutors charged the Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang, 31, of the 3400 block of Lafayette Avenue in St. Louis, with two felony counts of first-degree statutory sodomy involving a boy younger than 14.
Jiang was previously accused of having improper contact with a teenage girl from Lincoln County, though those charges were later dismissed.
The latest charges allege that Jiang had sexual contact with a student at the St. Louis Cathedral School in the 4400 block of Maryland Avenue, police said in court documents. The boy told detectives and a forensic interviewer that Jiang had sexual contact with the boy two different times in a school bathroom between July 1, 2011, and Aug. 1, 2012.
The archdiocese said in a statement issued Friday that the new allegation was reported through the Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline 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.