Advocates of child sex abuse survivors have slammed Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt for appearing to defend convicted child sex offender Peter Kehoe during a segment about the St Kevin's College scandal
President of advocacy group the Blue Knot Foundation Cathy Kezelman said Mr Bolt and Mr Henderson were"minimising" the crime.
"[Mr Bolt and Mr Henderson] are completely irresponsible, they are uninformed and their ignorance is destructive to the social fabric of the country."She pointed out how the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse"showed there was a culture of minimisation, denial, cover up and a lack of understanding about grooming and how insidious it is".
Responding to Mr Henderson's comment, Father Rod Bower of Gosford Anglican Church said the outrage about St Kevin's College was not"anti-Christian", but"anti-child sex abuse". "It minimises the harm that was done … It seeks to invalidate the experience of harm. And that's a devastating thing to a survivor of child sex abuse."
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