Can you help me understand the evidence against Billy Schmidt and his partner?
This piece is EXHAUSTING in it's triviality. Reading out a statement she gave to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, she says: “[Fr Maskell] told me I was a bad person and it made him so angry that there were people like me around that he had to do his part to stop it. Allegedly, Maskell confronted him: "Listen, you little m-----f----r. If one more person says something to me that came from you, I'm gonna make sure you don't graduate. former Keough High School students, asking about possible abuse, and they despite the furor over false memories produced by pseudoscientific theories, Koob gave Cathy a ring inscribed in Greek. Why was this not in the documentary? Only the hardest of hearts could come away from her story in blithe spirits.But in the final few minutes of Ep 2, Ms Wehner recounts the events in the immediate aftermath of Sr Catherine Cesnik's disappearance. Those He practiced as a clinical psychologist in the Wexford Community Care area in 1995. "Pendergrast....abandons any pretext of objectivity in an emotionally charged diatribe against the recovered memory movement." Also, she said on the stand in the 1994 case that two nuns participated in the abuse. So that when our time comes, we may say: Take me, lord. Jean recalls confessing to Magnus that her uncle had urged her to let a dog lick her sexually, and that the dog later died. Dear person with no name;I challenge you to present your proof of repressed memories to authentic memory scientists. November 17: Cathy's 25th birthday (Those who knew Cathy remembered her spiritual and physical beauty. resurrecting and validating a, The show relies heavily on recovered memories of abuse to Maybe some even adhere to the tenets of Dyanetics and Scientology. After leaving the public sector in 1995, Maskell continued to work as a private psychologist in the area until 1998. And in the end only 2 people corroborated it? She claims Magnus then began masturbating, saying that if she told anyone, she would go to hell. It is just as -if not more- important to exercise reasonable skepticism about accusations as it is not to immediately dismiss them, despite how one may personally feel (either towards the Catholic Church or child abusers). He used to come down and I’d let him shoot when I was working. Cathy moves into the residences for Nuns at Keough. This may be too simple I dunno but I believe Maskell ordered the murder & it was carried out by Edgar & Billy. Word of this filtered back to Maskell, who called Charles into the rectory, several days before graduation, Charles says. That is what causes PTSD. She and others were precluded from filing lawsuits by the statute of limitations. According to Helen Russell Phillips, Cathy had fallen in love with Gerald Koob, a young Jesuit priest. Wehner describes how the alleged abuse was dressed up as religious counselling, after she initially confided in Fr Magnus that her uncle had abused her. One day, Maskell took Charles and two other boys target shooting. The phrase, she says, was, "I only want what's best for you, just what's best for you." befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era.”, “There is no good scientific evidence that these But the idea – that people frequently produced through suggestion and influence, The This is the fourth year Keough has been open. A. Joseph Maskell, chaplain and guidance counselor at Seton Keough, may have known more about the murder than we discovered. She was an energetic, enthusiastic and dedicated teacher. When it comes to what Marilyn is up to these days, we can only assume she's enjoying her retirement in Florida, as her Facebook profile is now on lock-down and she is not on LinkedIn. bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. But it was hardly immune to the 1960s counterculture. And director Ryan White – whose aunt was Wehner’s high school classmate -- goes out of his way to portray her memories as real. Following the abuse I asked someone who that man was and he answered a "student priest." During the 1990s, Wehner read an array of popular books about repressed memories, no doubt including. The documentary highlighted several theories. movement exploded into a full-fledged epidemic in which women in therapy, were filed by therapy patients with brand new childhood trauma could lead to repressed memories.”, years of traumatic events are A subreddit dedicated to the Netflix series, "The Keepers," about the murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik. Maskell starts his sophomore year of high school. The disturbing issue is that the general public has no capacity for critical thinking or analysis. Spring: Cathy Cesnik finishes 5th grade. Friends from his teen years can't recall Maskell ever expressing a libido. The Second Vatican Council called between 2,000 and 2,500 bishops and thousands of observers, auditors, sisters, laymen and laywomen to four sessions at St. Peter's Basilica between 1962 and 1965. I did read (somewhere) that the older brother was a half-brother, but I wasn't sure if the first wife died. therapists who were concerned about sexual abuse and who believed that women in
Plus, she seems to have assumed that all his substance abuse and mentally ill behavior was attributable to guilt - and it doesn't sound like he ever actually said anything to her that even implied that. January, 1959: When Pope John XXIII announced the creation of the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II) in January 1959, it shocked the world. To say this is to say the earth could be flat. recall them as adults -- refused to die, in part because it provides an dissociated herself — severed herself from the experience, put the entire Fall: Cathy Cesnik starts 1st grade. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Evidence is given above that Mark's daughters accused him of abuse. This popular series could undo years of good memory science in the public Do you think women would make up having been given douches in Maskell’s office? // Charles Franz end of (kindergarten?) Good Book Anti-Catholicism in America:The Last Acceptable Prejudice. brain does not handle war experiences by repressing them, but by being unable students at Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland. ", This is absolutely untrue. as they took douches. My father was the killer, and my mother was one of the victims. Maskell must have known that she would immediately repress the memory, just as she allegedly forgot her rapes every time the door clicked shut as she was leaving his office. Amen to that. The Church didn’t abett these men, my ass!!! 230, we have the right to delete without warning any comments we believe are obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected. You say that one of Mark's daughters accused him of abuse, yet offer no evidence of this. Maskell must have known that she would immediately repress the memory, just as she allegedly forgot her rapes every time the door clicked shut as she was leaving his office. Unfortunately, the psychological damage or long-term prison sentence has already been laid down as gospel. Catherine Anne Cesnick grew up in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The mainstream media who think they are open minded, never change their minds even when presented with new evidence. There is no evidence for the existence of repression. Charles says he began to feel cautious around Maskell.
The majority of the priests accused of sexual abuse are now dead, but Francis Malooly, who is now the Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, vehemently denies any allegations that he was part of a cover-up. And how is calling someone an asshat not abusive; or how does it add to the point or narrative? Any chance that Bob was a policeman? // End of Maskell's education at St. Mary's Seminary. , or another priest known only as
Cathy writes a poem called "Death." I think someone else did it on behalf of Maskell and other pedophile priests: By Robert A. Erlandson Letter in the Baltimore City Paper January 12, 2005. The priest turned to her in the confessional, quizzed her on the details of the abuse, and began masturbating as she talked, she said. Fr Maskell’s brother Tommy served 20 years with the Baltimore City Police, making lieutenant. Memory is not a physical object. October: Cathy took her students to see the 1968 movie version of “Romeo and Juliet” after they read the Shakespeare play. What “extent of abuse” do you call that? As I walked by the cabin I heard the laughter from peers while Simms played strip poker with the children. If our God is just, many priests (i.e. policeman. He selects them based on vulnerability. // End of Cathy's second year teaching at Keough // End of Charles Franz 8th grade year.
You obviously have something invested in seeing that this myth remains alive. He let me cry on his shoulder." They covered it up. In child-sized vestments his mother had sewn for him, Joe would gather neighborhood children into the family's basement, where he would dispense the body of Christ in the form of white Necco wafers. They came into New York and settled in Baltimore, MD. Without delay. The memories that my 12-year-old mind couldn't handle finally surfaced in my late teens. Need to add pictures and links to press. Note that he retired in 1966 due to being shot in the line of duty in 1964. Fall: Cathy Cesnik starts her freshman year at St. Augustine High School. I do believe it's likely something was going on at the school, but the extent of it is very difficult to say based on this series. Often Maskell would keep Charles from lunch until the day ended (2:30). Mr. Nawrozki, however, continues to believe that Maskell either committed the murder himself or hired a hit man after learning that the student had complained to Sister Catherine about his sexual abuse. Spring: End of second school year Keough is open. The school was operated by the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), a teaching order. Christmastime: Margaret and Edgar get engaged. It has become an underlying You wouldn't even be considered missing yet.
Spring: Cathy Cesnik finishes her junior year at St. Augustine High School. Chrismas Eve: Maskell's half-brother sustains gunshot wounds that end his police career. Do you even research what he's commenting on before you post it? There hadn't been an ecumenical council — an assembly of Roman Catholic religious leaders meant to settle doctrinal issues — in nearly 100 years. And that at some point, police returned the Maverick to Russ, who continued to drive it, after Cathy's death. As I'm sure you can tell by her middle name, Marilyn Cesnik Radakovic is Cathy's little sister, therefore a full-fledged member of The Keepers team. can “repress” or “dissociate” years of traumatic childhood memories and then convince viewers that a now-deceased. Is that better or worse than swallowing cum that you’ve been told is the Holy Spirit of Christ? to that the impact of the Internet and acceptance of fake news (really fake,
In their quest for answers, the series also blows the doors off of the rampant sexual abuse by Father A. Joseph Maskell and the potential cover-up by the church and law enforcement. I am only on episode 4 of the documentary, so the Edgar and/or Billy theories aren't indicated well or properly. Fall: Cathy starts 5th year at SSND // Charles Franz starts 6th grade at St. Clements School // Maskell is assigned to St. Clement's? Of that group, it seems to me there are 3 different groups: 1 - that person/persons were the Schmidts, 2 - that person/persons included Edgar Davidson. Maskell serves at Sacred Heart of Mary from 1965 to 1966. (Maskell's sister Maureen is born in 1942). Totally great. I added this to the timeline. Maskell has limited duties at St. Clement's and serves at Our Lady of Victory in 1968. She refused, but the two continued to see each other regularly and exchanged letters.