UNITED KINGDOM
Crawley News
A former Crawley priest carried out a string of sex attacks at a children’s home, a court has heard.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, is accused of abusing more than a dozen girls and boys at the home over a four-year period.
He is also accused of indecently assaulting a boy at a home in Essex, and two girls in Hampshire.
The retired Church Of England priest denies 35 counts of indecent assault on 17 children as young as five, and two counts of attempted rape, between January 1962 and January 1973.
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