UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
An Anglican priest who abused children in the 1960s and 70s has been convicted of 36 separate sex offences.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, from East Sussex, who is now retired, was found guilty by a jury at Lewes Crown Court.
The attacks took place between 1962 and 1973 in Hampshire and Sussex, although most of them were carried out at Ifield Hall children’s home in Crawley, when Rideout was an assistant curate.
The charges related to 16 different children. He will be sentenced later.
Rideout, from Polegate, had denied 34 indecent assaults and two attempted rapes.
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