MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun
The release of “The Keepers,” a Netflix documentary series examining the unsolved death of a Catholic nun and abuse at then-Archbishop Keough High School, has sparked calls for the Archdiocese of Baltimore to release files on the priest at the center of the story.
An online petition on change.org has more than 11,000 signatures urging church officials to make public its files on A. Joseph Maskell, who died in 2001.
The priest denied abuse allegations before his death and was never charged. Since 2011, the archdiocese has paid out $472,000 in settlements to 16 people who accused him of abuse.
“The release of these documents will restore public trust in the Archdiocese, and confirm the Archdiocese statements regarding their handling of the sexual abuse claims,” the petition states.
Jean Wehner, ‘Jane Doe’ featured in ‘The Keepers,’ discusses her now-public story
It also says such a disclosure would help to investigate “all avenues that may have led to the murder of Cathy Cesnik in 1969.”
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