MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
Jonathan M. Pitts
The Baltimore Sun
This was already going to be a bittersweet spring at Seton Keough High School. The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced in October that it would be closing the Catholic school for girls at the end of the school year, and the community has spent the final months honoring the school’s history before bidding it farewell.
But the release of the hit Netflix documentary series “The Keepers,” which explores sexual abuse at then-Archbishop Keough High School decades ago and the still unsolved killing of a young teacher, has cast a darker shadow on the last days of the beloved institution.
“The Keepers” debuted last week. The school is to celebrate its final graduation ceremony Friday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
Students, staff and alumni voice strong support for the seven-part documentary, which depicts the struggle of six women to bring to light their stories of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest at the school in the 1960s.
Many just wish it weren’t happening right now.
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