The Keepers

Now grown, survivors describe sexual abuse at the hands of a predatory priest and how his actions may have led to Sister Catherine's murder.

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the trains.

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when their little daughter puts on a veil and goes for her First Communion.

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The Catholic religion, the Catholic faith was part of who we were.

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[Deb] It was very exciting...

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[Teresa] They even put "we are women of a new age" in their song,

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That had ended, there was some guilt.

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that it was going to take a while before there was going to be a real answer

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I felt that it was a man of...

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I remember one time he was real angry and he was raping me.

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He was down at the far corner where there was an exit.

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[Tom] From 15 years old, he was priest-in-training.

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I was telling you about, Southern District policeman in Baltimore,

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He'd come into the sacristy and, um...

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[Jean] One time I went into the room and he said,

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He never would hand me a handkerchief.

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Then I went in and I sat down in a desk.

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She just had a way of soothing your soul.

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promising to serve God faithfully until death.

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I just knew in my heart that's what I wanted to do.

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[Lyn] We became canonical novices, which meant that we were cloistered.

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There was a complete change...

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but she also addressed him.

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"I know he's weird and all, but you have to go."

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There was a bar that he would frequent and he would take me in the back room.

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And Maskell comes over and he, um, grabs him, and he said:

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And I told her that, um...

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One of the persons who was standing in the room one time

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and he pulled the trigger, and he said he will do the same thing,

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And, you know, I thought about that in nursing school years later.

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I already had two jobs.

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I must've been so totally naive,

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[Mary] And then it all came out and-- "Do you think I'm gonna be all right?"

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There's so many gaps in my memory

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She said, "Well, how about if I just ask and you shake your head?"

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was anyone making me do something that I didn't wanna do.

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always the fear of exploding to air.

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She was facing a crossroads in her life...

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You're meant to be a priest, I'm meant to be a nun, so we'll go on."

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And I'm looking at the floor, you know, and he's, like:

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to try living outside the convent in an apartment in Catonsville

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and we talked shortly.

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I asked her specifically what expressions were on their faces,

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She said there was something serious she wanted to talk to me about.

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