Sr. Joan Agnes Hasson
Given name was Catherine A. Hasson. Included in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report; name redacted, referred to as #149. Member of the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Francis, Philadelphia. Left the Order in 1945, went on to marry. Married name was Catherine A. Salmons. Died in 1991. In 2004 a woman reported to the Archdiocese that when she was in first grade in 1944, Hasson, who was her teacher, orally raped her repeatedly throughout the year. The abuse was said to have occurred in the classroom cloakroom and, on the first day of school, in a closet beneath a stairwell, where Hasson had locked the girl because she was scared and crying. Hasson allegedly told the girl the principal assigned the abuse as punishment for misbehavior. Hasson also reportedly physically abused the girl and other students.
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