AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
‘Die Pell’: The Age newspaper’s savage Facebook post after Cardinal George Pell was linked to paedophile priest
One of Australia’s biggest national newspapers is investigating how the offensive comment ‘Die Pell’ appeared on their Facebook page referring to the under-fire Cardinal George Pell.
On Wednesday the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed documents showing that Cardinal Pell had helped move Australia’s worst paedophile priest, Gerald Francis Ridsdale, between parishes at the height of his reign of terror.
The Age newspaper in Melbourne became embroiled in the backlash to this when the words ‘Die Pell’ was published on its Facebook page, which has a following of 110,000.
3AW News Talk reports that two separate sources confirmed with their presenter Neil Mitchell that a link to the newspaper’s coverage of the Royal Commission was posted along with the words ‘Die Pell’.
The newspaper is investigating how the offensive comment about Pell was published. Its editor Andrew Holden said the post was live for about one hour.
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