ROME
Daily Mail
By LUCY THACKRAY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and AAP
Sky News is being slammed for sending controversial commentator Andrew Bolt to report on the royal commission into sex abuse in Rome, as Bolt has previously referred to Cardinal George Pell as ‘the victim of a witch hunt.’
Social media users have voiced their shock after seeing the columnist reporting from Rome, where Cardinal George Pell is appearing before the Royal Commission into Insitutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Pell is being questioned about his knowledge of the abuse of children by members of the Roman Catholic church in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s.
Assuming the role of ‘Sky News contributor’, Bolt has spent much of his time on air defending Pell and speaking about ‘the enormous hate campaign’ against the cardinal.
Last month Bolt wrote a column for News Corp proclaiming: ‘Cardinal George Pell is the victim of one of the most vicious witch hunts to disgrace this country. It is shameful. Disgusting. Frightening.’
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