BALTIMORE (MD)
WJZ
August 27, 2018
New developments in WJZ’s investigation into systemic abuse at some of Baltimore’s catholic schools in the sixties and seventies.
Previously, WJZ’s investigation revealed that one nun must have known about the abuse — now the fallout from the investigation.
It’s a dark chapter for Baltimore’s catholic schools.
Father Joseph Maskell, a counselor at Seton Keough High School, is accused of molesting dozens of students.
WJZ’s investigation also revealed abuse at the hands of at least one other priest, police and a teacher at catholic community middle school, John Merzbacher.
Linda was one of Merzbacher’s victims: “I was in the 8th grade. Merzbacher kept me after school. He locked the door, he tripped me to the floor. He straddles me. He unbuttoned my shirt blouse. I was petrified and then I heard the click of the door being unlocked. In walked sister Eileen Wiseman and stood over both of us. Her comment to him was, ‘Oh John, I told you never to lock the door’. and she looked at me and said, ‘You are never to stay after school again’. (and she was a nun?) I thought this woman was going to save me when she came in the door and she did absolutely nothing.”
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