MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TROY, MO. • St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson testified Monday he told the Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang to counsel a Lincoln County family about their participation in a rogue nun’s religious rituals but that he didn’t know the priest sometimes slept overnight at the family’s home.
“I certainly would be concerned about it,” Carlson said, if he had known about Jiang’s sleepovers at the time.
Carlson was the first to testify in the second week of a civil trial accusing Jiang of molesting a teenager at her family’s Old Monroe home in June 2012 and leaving a $20,000 check as hush money. Carlson said Jiang called him from the airport awaiting a flight home and said he kissed the girl but did not have sex with her.
“He was hysterical,” Carlson said. “He said, ‘They’re trying to take my priesthood away from me.’” Carlson told Jiang not to flee to China if all he did was kiss her.
Last week, Jiang, 31, denied all allegations of inappropriate contact with the teen.
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