Monday, May 29, 2017

'The Keepers' Did Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic Church protect a priest?

THE KEEPERS on NET-FLIX. (Season 1 Episode 7). Within Jean’s repressed memories from 1969. She claimed that Father Joseph Maskell had led her to the dead body of Sister Cathy Cesnik. Her skull was bludgeoned and Jean saw “maggots” crawling over the dead body. It has been maintained by critics that maggots don’t appear in winter (November 1969). Reports maintain that the weather was sunny and warm in the days during that month. Father Maskell claimed he never brought Jean to Cathy’s dead body. He died in 2001.

Charles Franz came forward as an adult who says that Joseph Maskell had sexually molested him when he was in 8th grade. He blamed Maskell and himself because if the Catholic Church dealt with the abuse. Sister Cathy would not have been murdered in 1969. Charles says that Father Maskell went from bad to worse as he got older. He also taught Charles to drink alcohol who later had a drinking problem. The Archdiocese in 1967 transferred Maskell to another Catholic school. The acting 1994 Archdiocese claimed he never heard about the abuse allegation nor the transfer of Maskell.

Sister Russell shared an apartment with Sister Cathy back in 1969. Russell left the church after Cathy’s murder and never talked about it. She took everything to the grave when she died in 2001. She coincidentally passed away a few days after Father Maskell. She also told a friend that Maskell took his “secret” to his own grave.

Jean also had a repressed memory of “Brother Bob” who no one knows about. She claims that he threatened her as well to cover up Cathy’s murder and all the sexual abuse. Bob has never been identified. Police detectives have no direct evidence to arrest anyone in Cathy’s murder. They also have no evidence in the sexual abuse of 100 high school girls at the hands of Father Maskell.

Will Cathy’s murder ever be solved? Was there any DNA evidence collected at the crime scene? Did the Catholic Church protect Father Maskell?

You can stream all 7 episodes of THE KEEPERS over at "Netflix."

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