UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on 29/04/2013
A man who says he was sexually abused by an Eastbourne vicar when he was just seven or eight has told a court he felt ‘terrible and disgusting’.
Gordon Rideout, a 74-year-old Church of England minister, has pleaded not guilty to 38 sexual offences against 18 young boys and girls, some as young as five.
Rideout lives in Filching Close, Polegate, and is currently on bail but standing trial at Lewes Crown Court.
Yesterday (Thursday, April 25), two men, both Barnados children in care during the 1960s, gave evidence at his trial and told the court Rideout had put his hands down their trousers.
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