Magnus was the Director of Religious Studies. To bolster their proposed legal maneuver, Dantes and colleague Jim Maggio ran an anonymous ad in The Sun seeking other alumni who might have memories from their days at Keough. But the word did come down from higher levels of the police department that we had to lay off [Jesuit Father Gerard J. In particular, the series focuses on the alleged abuses by Fr Joseph Maskell, who was a counsellor at Archbishop Keough High School, an all-girls High School in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1967 to 1975. Maskell died in 2001, and until his death, he had denied the allegations. Hawkins took Maskell in for several weeks last year, and got scolded by the archdiocese for doing so. Maskell, though, was still at Keough, and Jennifer claims he told her someone had approached him during the summer and accused him of hurting the girls.. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. In fact, female sexuality is the scapegoat for a lot of earthly misery, from Adams fall on, acknowledges Catholic Universitys Fr. However, Jennifer Wortham, chair of the Global Collaborative, a network of child advocacy organizations, says civil lawsuit limitations are only one part of the puzzle. Deborah Wisner, of Keoughs class of 74, also went to see Maskell to smoke and discuss family problems. Through reinterpretation the priest was able to maintain that his action was not a sin.. Dont worry, the rector replied. Allegedly, Maskell reassured her: I am touching you in a Godly manner., This session led to a series of meetings in which, Tracy claims, she was naked, sometimes sitting on his lap. On another occasion, she claims, he held an unloaded gun to her head and pulled the trigger, allegedly warning that her policeman father, if he ever learned what was going on, would surely do the same thing with a loaded gun. On the drive home, Bill sat up front with Maskell, and as the car rose over a bump in the road, Bill alleges, Maskell reached over, grabbed Bills crotch, and said playfully, Hold on to your balls.. Brian Frosh, the former Maryland attorney general who oversaw the grand jury investigation, says some people who have been allegedly abused lived with fear, guilt and anxiety. In 1993, she says, she recalled that Maskell allegedly hypnotized her: He would use a certain phrase and everything would just stop. The phrase, she says, was, I only want whats best for you, just whats best for you. She says he told her that before divulging a certain incident to anyone, I was to kill myself..