Ridsdale to Face Court on Child Sex Offences

ABC News
June 20, 2013

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-21/ridsdale-to-face-court-on-child-sex-offences/4770376

A 79-year-old man will face the Melbourne Magistrates Court today charged with 72 child sex offences.

The ABC understands it is notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale.

The former Catholic priest was jailed in 1994 for offences against 21 victims between the 1960s and 1980s.

The new allegations come just weeks before Ridsdale would have been eligible for parole.