AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Samantha Donovan
One of Australia’s most notorious paedophile priests, Gerald Ridsdale, is being interviewed by detectives about more abuse allegations.
AM understands Victorian police successfully applied for permission to interview 79-year-old Ridsdale yesterday.
He is currently in jail for the abuse of dozens of children between the 1960s and the 1980s.
In 1994 he pleaded guilty to more than 40 charges of sexual abuse involving 21 children. He was convicted again 12 years later over charges involving 10 boys.
Stephen Woods was a 14-year-old schoolboy when Ridsdale raped him.
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