MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun
Jean Hargadon Wehner keeps her guard up when she leaves her home.
As a rape survivor, “I have a certain way that I move in public, kind of a protected” way, Wehner says.
So it’s been somewhat unnerving — but at the same time encouraging —that strangers have approached the Howard County woman over the past month in places like the grocery store.
They recognize her from the Netflix documentary “The Keepers,” which focuses on sexual abuse at her alma mater, Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, and the unsolved 1969 homicide of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, who taught there.
“I wanted people to know that they’re not alone, and what it’s done is it’s made me feel like I’m not alone,” Wehner, 63, said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun, her first comments to Baltimore media since the series debuted.
Wehner, who graduated from Keough in 1971, has a central role in the seven-part series. She first came forward in 1992 with allegations that the school’s former counselor and chaplain, A. Joseph Maskell, had repeatedly raped her when she was a student. In the series, she describes how she confided in Cesnik that she was abused — and says Maskell took her to see the nun’s body.
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