BALTIMORE (MD)
CBS Baltimore (WJZ-TV)
March 25, 2018
By Mike Hellgren
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Several survivors of sexual abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic schools are demanding action against a nun who they say turned a blind eye to crimes decades ago.
“All we want is the truth to be out, and we want justice to be served,” abuse survivor Bill Stankiewicz said.
Survivors and their supporters carried signs outside a home for retired nuns Sunday to draw attention to a former school principal, Sister Eileen Weisman, who they claim knew but never reported a teacher at her former school, John Merzbacher, was sexually abusing students.
Survivors of sexual abuse at Catholic schools in Baltimore—and their supporters—protested outside Villa Assumpta today; they want to draw attention to a nun/former principal who they claim failed to report abuse.
Merzbacher is currently in prison for child rape.
Kathie Lewandowski Richardson says Merzbacher abused her in the 1970s at Catholic Community Middle School. She says Sister Weisman ignored it.
Court records from the Merzbacher case also state Weisman knew Merzbacher was abusing children but didn’t intervene.
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