MARYLAND
WBAL
[with video]
Lisa Robinson
BALTIMORE —
The story of young women who say they were abused at Archbishop Keough High School in the late ’60s through the early ’70s is highlighted in a Netflix docudrama called “The Keepers.”
One of the victims featured in the show spoke to WBAL-TV 11 News about coming forward after all these years. It’s taken almost 50 years for Teresa Lancaster to come out of the shadows and talk about the abuse that she said has plagued her life. She said she’s not hiding anymore.
“It was very exciting to go to Keough. It was a new school. It was really an honor to be accepted there,” Lancaster said.
Lancaster started the school in 1968. She said her excitement would eventually turn into pure hell.
“I sought out the help of Father Maskell to help patch things up between myself and my parents, and that’s when the abuse started in the fall of 1970,” Lancaster said.
Maskell was the school’s chaplain.
“He took myself and my friend, Linda, to a wooded area, where there was a lot of police cars and flashlights and stuff, and I was raped by two policemen there,” Lancaster said.
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