MARYLAND
ABC 2 News
[with video]
Christian Schaffer
May 30, 2017
In addition to the allegations against Father Joseph Maskell, several of the women interviewed in “The Keepers” also say they were abused by a local gynecologist, Dr. Christian Richter.
At one point in episode four of the documentary, Teresa Lancaster — who in 1994 sued Dr. Richter, Father Maskell and the Archdiocese under the name “Jane Roe” — is seen viewing a VHS tape of a news clip from an interview with Dr. Richter.
The story Lancaster was viewing was from WMAR’s news broadcast on August 25, 1994; it focuses on the filing of the lawsuit by Lancaster and Jean Hargadon Wehner, who at the time identified herself only as Jane Doe.
She says Father Maskell took her to the doctor’s office “on several occasions,” and Maskell raped her in the examination room while Dr. Richter was in the room.
In the interview, the doctor admits that he knew Father Maskell. Maskell died in 2001; Richter died in 2006.
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