In February 2016, Lucie Morris-Marr broke news of a police probe into allegations that Australia’s Cardinal George Pell, the third most powerful clergyman in the Catholic Church, had sexually abused children. She had been investigating Pell for 10 months; it would be another three years before she would report the outcome of that investigation and the subsequent trial. In that time, Morris-Marr saw her reporting labeled part of a “witch hunt,” weathered calls for an investigation into her sourcing by the Church, and lost her job at the Melbourne newspaper that published her scoop.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/covering-child-abuse-in-the-catholic-church-under-a-court-gag-order.php
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/covering-child-abuse-in-the-catholic-church-under-a-court-gag-order.php
