Survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic church are calling on the Maryland Attorney General to complete his investigation into abuses in all Maryland churches.
They also want the church to drop its challenge to a Maryland law that eliminates the statute of limitations for victims.
The Archdiocese of Washington, which controls several churches in Maryland, is fighting to keep the statute of limitations with arguments before the Maryland Supreme Court scheduled for next week.
Survivors Speak
“To me, it’s my life goal to protect children from the abuse that I suffered, and we can do that going forward. The church says on one hand they want to support us and with the other hand, they want to take the law away” said Teresa Lancaster, a victim of abuse by Father Joseph Maskell whose story has been highlighted previously on WJZ and nationally in The Keepers, a Netflix documentary.
“It proved that everything we said happened in The Keepers did happen after the church said it was a bunch of lies,” Lancaster told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren Wednesday.
Lancaster and other survivors spoke outside the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.
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