My 2 cents: ‘The Keepers’ a riveting Netflix drama

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By Lindsey O’Laughlin

State Rep. Mark Rozzi, a Muhlenberg Democrat, has refused to compromise on his stance that statute of limitations reform for victims of childhood sexual abuse must include a retroactive window allowing any past victims to sue their abusers, regardless of when the abuse occurred.

A recent Netflix series reminded me why I agree with him.

In case you haven’t heard the buzz, “The Keepers” is a seven-part true-crime documentary about a Baltimore pedophile Catholic priest, the children whom he victimized and the unsolved murder of a 26-year-old nun who knew too much.

Sister Catherine Cesnik was beloved by her students at Archbishop Keough High School in the late 1960s, where she taught English and drama, wrote poetry and played the guitar. It wasn’t until decades after her body was found that any connection surfaced between Cesnik and the Rev. Joseph Maskell, the priest accused of abusing at least 50 girls at Keough and at least one boy from a former parish.

That connection is Jean Wehner, a survivor of Maskell’s abuse and a captivating person of resilience.

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