Father A. Joseph Maskell’s file with the Catholic Church will remain sealed, to the dismay of tens of thousands of petition signatories.
Maskell, the late priest portrayed as an alleged sex abuser and authoritarian chaplain and counselor in Netflix’s “The Keepers,” worked at Southwest Baltimore’s since-shuttered Archbishop Keough High School during the 1960s and 1970s. During that time, multiple former students said he sexually abused them and threatened them.
“The Keepers” questions whether he also helped orchestrate the mysterious murder of a well-liked nun named Catherine Cesnik in 1969. Her body was discovered in a wooded area in Baltimore County, her skull fractured. One former student (formerly known as “Jane Doe,” identified in the show as Jean Hargadon Wehner) said Maskell sexually abused her when she was a student, and spooked her from tattling by bringing her to see Cesnik’s decomposing body for herself.
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