Lawyer-funded, Anti-Catholic Serial Slanderers SNAP Finally Apologizes to Exonerated St. Louis Priest Following 4 Year Defamation Campaign

The lawyer-funded hate group SNAP has issued a formal apology to St. Louis priest Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang, whom it had falsely accused of abusing children and maliciously branded a “pedophile.”

The apology was released this afternoon by the Archdiocese of St. Louis but first reported by Robert Patrick at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jeannette Cooperman at St. Louis Magazine.

SNAP’s apology reads as follows (emphasis added):

“The SNAP defendants never want to see anyone falsely accused of a crime. Admittedly, false reports of clergy sexual abuse do occur. The SNAP defendants have no personal knowledge as to the complaints against Fr. Joseph Jiang and acknowledge that all matters and claims against Fr. Jiang have either been dismissed or adjudicated in favor of Fr. Jiang. SNAP acknowledges that false claims of clergy sexual abuse injure those clerics falsely accused and the Roman Catholic Church. SNAP apologizes for any false or inaccurate statements related to the complaints against Fr. Joseph Jiang that it or its representatives made which in any way disparaged Fr. Joseph Jiang, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, Monsignor Joseph D. Pins and the Archdiocese of St. Louis.”

As regular readers of this site already know, SNAP’s apology caps a long, five-year battle by Fr. Jiang to clear his name and restore his trashed reputation. Along the way:

• Law enforcement dropped all criminal charges against the innocent Fr. Jiang;
• Fr. Jiang discovered his accuser already had a long and sordid legal past;
• A federal judge ruled that SNAP indeed defamed Fr. Jiang and ordered that SNAP reimburse his legal fees, totaling $25,100;
• Another judge ordered one of Jiang’s bogus accusers to pay the legal expenses of both Jiang and the Archdiocese of St. Louis, totaling $48,516.84; and
• A jury took mere minutes to swiftly exonerate Fr. Jiang in a two-week civil lawsuit.

Bravo to Fr. Jiang for fighting the good fight for truth and justice.