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Baltimore Sun crime and courts reporter Alison Knezevich wrote a piece on Tuesday regarding public health officials in Ireland reviewing the work history of Catholic Priest A. Joseph Maskell.
Knezevich writes that the Health Service Executive, the agency that runs public health services, recently began looking into complaints and concerns while Maskell was in the country due to the publicity of The Keepers, a Netflix documentary examining sexual abuse at Archbishop Keough High School and the 1969 unsolved murder of 26-year-old Sister Catherine Cesnik.
Maskell, who left the United States in the 1990s after allegations of sexual abuse mounted, worked as a temporary clinical psychologist for an Irish Public health board for about seven months in 1995 and then in private practice between 1995 and 1998.
The Sun reporter also notes that Maskell celebrated Mass in Ireland numerous times. He was prohibited from public ministry in the United States.
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