AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
May 30, 2013
Victorian detectives have applied to question convicted paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale about more allegations of child sexual abuse.
The 79-year-old is serving a prison sentence for abusing children between the 1960s and 1980s, but he will soon be eligible for parole.
They want to interview Ridsdale about allegations of abuse in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Catholic Church has decided not to publicly release the full list of Melbourne priests it acknowledges have sexually abused children.
Last week the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart told Victoria’s child abuse inquiry the church had paid compensation to the victims of 59 priests who had worked in the archdiocese.
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