Criminal charges related to the allegation of child endangerment and witness tampering were dropped in 2013, but Jiang’s arrest related to that case is still on his record, and he is seeking to have that arrest expunged as well, the AP reported.
The priest was criminally charged in 2014 with sexually abusing a boy in a Catholic school bathroom in 2011 and 2012, a charge that both he and the St. Louis Archdiocese strongly denied. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce later dropped all charges in 2015 without explanation.
Jiang subsequently countersued the male alleged victim’s family, St. Louis police, and the anti-clerical abuse organization Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) — which had publicized the allegations against him — alleging racial and religious discrimination in his wrongful accusal. The suit claimed that the boy’s parents “had a history of making unfounded claims against the Catholic Church for monetary gain.”
In 2016, a judge…
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