Priest Convicted of Sexual Abuse at Children's Home

By Philippe Naughton
The Times
May 20, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3769842.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_05_20

Philippe Naughton

A retired Anglican priest has been found guilty of abusing vulnerable boys and girls at a Barnardo’s children’s home in the 1960s and 1970s.

Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, of Polegate, East Sussex, was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of 34 indecent assaults and two attempted rapes between 1962 and 1973.