Senior priest Canon Gordon Rideout charged with child sex offences

UNITED KINGDOM
London 24

Thursday, June 28, 2012

A retired Church of England priest has been charged with child sex abuse in east London.

A victim was allegedly assaulted in a house in Barkingside between 1962 and 1968.

Canon Gordon Rideout faces 37 other paedophile offences dating back to between 1962 and 1973.

He is charged in total with 36 counts of abusing boys and girls in their early teens.

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