AUSTRALIA
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Convicted pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will be sentenced next year after pleading guilty to new child sex charges.
The defrocked Catholic priest was formally arraigned in the Victorian County Court on Wednesday, pleading guilty to 28 counts of indecent assault, one count of carnal knowledge of a child and one count of buggery.
Ridsdale has admitted abusing three girls and 11 boys between the 1960s and 1980, when he was parish priest at churches in regional Victoria and Melbourne.
Ridsdale, 79, is serving a long jail sentence for multiple child sex offences.
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