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23 May 2017

'The Keepers' Is A Plea For Justice, Says Teresa Lancaster

In 1994, under the pseudonyms of Jane Doe and Jane Roe, two women filed a civil lawsuit against a Catholic priest named Father Joseph Maskell. He'd been the chaplain of Baltimore's Archbishop Keough, an all-girls high school the women had attended in the late '60s. They alleged that their years there had been riddled with repeated sexual abuse at his hands, and that a beloved nun, Sister Cathy Cesnik, had been murdered to cover up his alleged crimes (Maskell denied the sexual assault accusations until his death in 2001. He was never charged in connection with Cesnik's case). His sexual abuse accusers identified themselves a decade after their lawsuit was dismissed (the statute of limitations had expired), and now, they've chronicled the saga once again for The Keepers, a gripping but gut-churning new docuseries from Netflix. One of these women, Teresa Lancaster, tells Bustle that The Keepers is a blaring plea for justice.

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-keepers-is-a-plea-for-justice-says-teresa-lancaster-58499