AUSTRALIA
International Business Times
By Vittorio Hernandez | November 18, 2013
Defrocked Victorian Catholic paedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale admitted on Monday morning to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court through a videolink from his cell to 14 more sexual abuses of children.
With his new admission, the number of the young male and female victims of the 79-year-old former priest goes up to 45. He committed them between the 1961 and 1982.
His new admission would affect Mr Ridsdale’s eligibility for parole which is up in the coming weeks.
He has been in jail since 1994 for sexual offences against 21 victims – 20 boys and 1 girl. His victims rose to 31 when he was convicted of more charges in 2006 for sexual abuse of 10 more boys from 1970 to 1987.
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