UNITED KINGDOM
Crawley News
A MAN who says he was sexually abused when aged just nine by a vicar has said he was told it was “a part of God’s work”.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, is standing trial at Lewes Crown Court after pleading not guilty to 37 sexual offences against young boys and girls, some as young as five, in the 1960s and 1970s.
A total of 32 of the charges relate to Rideout’s time as an assistant curate at St Mary’s Church in Southgate, when he would visit a Barnados children’s home in Ifield.
Last Friday a man, who was in care at a home in Barkingside, Essex, during the 1960s said Rideout had put his hand down his shorts.
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