Ridsdale Pleads Guilty to More Crimes

By Steve Butcher
The Courier
November 18, 2013

http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/1915180/ridsdale-pleads-guilty-to-more-crimes/?cs=12

Ridsdale at an earlier hearing.

One of Australia's - and Ballarat's - worst paedophile former priests has admitted to multiple new offences against 14 victims.

Gerald Ridsdale pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today, to the crimes committed in the 1960s and 1970s.

He had been eligible for parole last June after serving a long prison sentence for offences against 40 children in the 1960s and 1970s, and in 1980.

Ridsdale, 79, pleaded guilty to 30 charges, mostly indecent assault, against 14 victims which included three offences against a female.

More than 50 charges were struck out by magistrate Ian Alger.