MISSOURI
TheMediaReport
David Pierre
In a monumental victory for truth and justice in the Catholic Church abuse story, a federal judge has ruled that the lawyer-funded group SNAP indeed defamed St. Louis priest Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang and conspired to falsely claim the priest of child sex abuse.
In her ruling, the judge sanctioned SNAP, its national director David Clohessy, and its “outreach director” Barbara Dorris and ordered them to pay for Fr. Jiang’s attorney fees and expenses.
[**Court docs: Click to read the federal judge’s ruling against SNAP (pdf)**]
As we reported back in June 2015, Fr. Jiang filed a federal lawsuit against SNAP, who continued to publicly accuse the cleric of being a child molester even after being twice cleared of crazy sex abuse claims.
The abuse claims were outlandish from the beginning. The accuser “had made previous unfounded allegations of sexual abuse” and already had a reputation of being “a serial exaggerator to the point of being ‘delusional.'”
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