The parents allege in their suit that the archbishop tried to tamper with evidence by asking them to return a $20,000 check that Father Jiang left them. The lawsuit alleges that the priest explained to the girl’s mother in a text message he left the check “because of his ‘stupidity.’ ”
Instead, the parents turned the check over to law enforcement officials, as they should have.
A statement on the archdiocese website regarding the parents’ lawsuit says: “The Archdiocese has been made aware of a John and Jane Doe lawsuit recently filed in Lincoln County against the Archdiocese of St. Louis and Archbishop Carlson asserting errors in the supervision of a diocesan priest. These new allegations against the archdiocese and the archbishop are false and will be denied in an answer to the lawsuit filed in court.”
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