AUSTRALIA
The Age

November 18, 2013

Steve Butcher

One of Australia’s worst paedophile former priests has admitted to multiple new offences against 14 victims.

Gerald Ridsdale on Monday pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to the crimes committed in the 1960s and 1970s.

He had been eligible for parole last June after serving a long prison sentence for offences against 40 children between 1961 and 1987.

Ridsdale, 79, pleaded guilty to 30 charges, mostly indecent assault, against 14 victims which included three offences against a female.