The Keepers

As survivors and victims' families seek closure, they face frustrating law enforcement bureaucracy and a legislative fight with their archdiocese.

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So, if we get anything out of this conversation today, okay...

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And she said, "How do you know my world's not a dangerous place?

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when she had surgeries and things like that.

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the same story, and has, sort of, a sense of personal integrity.

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Yeah, I got it on my phone.

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And, um, in looking at it, the bell would symbolize a wedding,

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We know Sister Cathy was out buying a present for her sister.

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with both of their feet might have driven the car at some point that night.

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We have talked to Edgar Davidson quite a few times,

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"I know you didn't have DNA back then, but I know you have DNA today.

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Any person in the past that was looked at, polygraphed, brought in for interviews,

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We would walk down to St. Clement's, we'd go past 1st Avenue

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I'd feel even more disappointed in them than I already am.

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[Abbie] I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI,

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about how long they have to actually send you the documents.

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April came and went and I never heard anything.

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You've learned to live with the lie as a child, so you can live as an adult.

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and stand up in front of a jury, and tell them.

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about people that are abused.

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[C.T.] They make it seem like it's the victim's fault,

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uh, the best we can do is try to bring them some healing.

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you must understand that we do have a role.

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Now, where I made the mistake

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And my mother, she wasn't one to be fooled with, especially with the kids.

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He was a boy at St. Clement's, Maskell was abusing him.

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He started off with this, he said, "I appreciate you meeting with us.

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You asked me to come here. You know, I-- I--

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That was the guy who wrote that letter?

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"How and when did the Archdiocese first hear allegations of abuse

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That-- That we're invisible. We're not invisible.

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I wasn't particularly a conspiracy theorist, as I think of it, at first.

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then how do we even know how many people could have been saved?

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