Baltimore braces for documentary on nun’s death, sex abuse at Catholic school

MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun

Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun

Donna Von Den Bosch climbed to the attic of her home so she could watch the footage alone.

The images flashed on her computer screen: the police car, the churches, the priests.

Her heart raced.

“I’m 60,” she told herself, again and again. “I’m not 15 anymore.”

Von Den Bosch was watching the trailer of the upcoming Netflix documentary “The Keepers.” The seven-part series focuses on sexual abuse in the 1960s and ’70s at Archbishop Keough High School and the unsolved 1969 disappearance and death of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, an English teacher at the Catholic school in Southwest Baltimore.

Von Den Bosch, who has received a settlement from the Archdiocese of Baltimore for abuse she suffered at Keough, is featured in the series. She is among the many across the region who are bracing for its release Friday.

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