Started working on a timeline for Maskell when he was in Wexford Ireland:
Timeline - Wexford, Ireland
1898:
Maskell’s father Joseph was born in Limerick and emigrated with his parents, Daniel and Hanna, to New York in 1898, before settling in Baltimore, an area popular with Irish immigrants.
13 April 1939:
Born Anthony Joseph Maskell in Baltimore City, but chose to call himself Joseph - the same name as his brother, and in deference to St Joseph - when he first went into the seminary.
1994:
Arrived in Ireland after fleeing the US as he was about to be arrested on child abuse charges.
After leaving his role as pastor of St Augustine’s parish in Elkridge, Baltimore, Fr Maskell moved to Ireland in 1994 as the case against him was ongoing.
1995:
He practiced as a clinical psychologist in the Wexford Community Care area in 1995.
The Diocese of Ferns kept a file on him from April 1995 to September 1998 but could not confirm the exact date of his arrival or departure.
In 1995, he said Mass in Screen and Curracloe, where he was said to be covering for other priests.
The HSE told the
Irish Times that it had begun reviewing the work of Maskell and “any concerns” arising from his employment as a psychologist in a “psycho-education initiative” by the South Eastern Health Board in Wexford from April 11th, 1995 to November 7th, 1995.
The Diocesan file shows that Fr. Maskell worked as a temporary psychologist with the SEHB in 1995, a psychologist in private practice in Wexford and Castlebridge from 1995 to 1998 and that he presented as a priest on occasions between 1995 and 1996 despite lacking permission.
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1996:
It was his presenting as a priest that prompted Ferns to enquire further into his status and to make contact with Baltimore and the SEHB in June 1996.
Arising from continued concerns as to his still unclarified status as well as reports that he was in the employment of the South Eastern Health Board and had appeared recently in full clerical garb in public, the Diocese (Ferns ) made direct contact with the Baltimore Archdiocese on June 25, 1996, requesting information on Fr. Maskell.
According to Fr. Carroll, it is clear from the file that Fr. Maskell continued work in private practice as a psychologist after July 1996.
A letter from the Diocese of Ferns dated October 6, 1996 pointed out to Fr. Maskell that the celebration of Mass by him, as permitted by his continued status as a priest of Baltimore, ‘anywhere other than in your own private residence – in seminaries, convents, etc.
1998:
After leaving the public sector in 1995, Maskell continued to work as a private psychologist in the area until 1998.
After leaving the employment of the SEHB, Fr. Maskell opened a private practice in Common Quay Street, a development that the Diocese was concerned about as it gave him unsupervised access to children.
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The file contains correspondence between the Diocese of Ferns and Fr. Maskell and the SEHB, the Gardai, and with lawyers and individuals who were contacted by the Diocese with a view to discovering more details about the status, activities and whereabouts of the US priest, up to September 22, 1998. It is not clear from the file whether Fr. Maskell had left the area or not by then.
The priest continued to work as a psychologist in private practice in Wexford until 1998.
Fr. Carroll said that up to September 22, 1998, the diocese continued to be uneasy about Fr. Maskell’s presence, his contacts and activities and his remaining here in light of the charges against him.
Maskell returned to the United States in 1998 and died in 2001.
1999:
Ms. Baldwin said she accompanied her brother back to Baltimore in 1999 where he continued to live until his death in 2001.