BALTIMORE (MD)
WMAR-2 News
August 28, 2018
By Christian Schaffer
Calls for Grand Jury Investigation into church
On a table inside Jean Hargadon Wehner’s home in Howard County, sits a rock with the word “Courage” carved into it — right next to a picture of Sister Catherine Cesnik.
“This is a woman who I felt should be spoken of, should be honored, should be discussed within the church,” Hargadon Wehner told WMAR-2 News’ Christian Schaffer, in an exclusive interview.
In the 1990s Hargadon Wehner sued the Archdiocese of Baltimore, under the name of “Jane Doe.” Then last year she re-surfaced, in the Netflix series “The Keepers.” This is the first time since the release of that series that we are hearing from her.
Hargadon Wehner is featured prominently. She names the disgraced priest Joseph Maskell as one of her abusers, when she attended Archbishop Keough High School back in the late 1960s.
On the last day of school in the spring of 1969, Sister Cesnik asked Jean whether she was being made to do something she didn’t want to do, and whether priests were involved. And she said yes. The nun told her she would take care of it, and to have a good summer.
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