ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
. . .It’s been a month now since a civil child sex abuse lawsuit was filed against Archbishop Robert Carlson based on accusations that one of his priests, Fr. Joseph Jiang, molested a girl. The suit contained an incendiary charge that Carlson broke criminal evidence tampering laws by asking the girl’s parents for a $20k check Jiang reportedly gave them after Jiang admitted abusing the girl. Often pedophile priest cases are mentioned in the weekly St. Louis Review archdiocesan newspaper. So far, however, not a word about this unusual accusation has appeared. . .
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