UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
An Anglican priest from Wannock who was jailed for sexually abusing young children has applied to be released from prison on compassionate grounds.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in May after being found guilty of 36 separate sex offences.
The priest, from Filching Close, committed the offences against 16 children between 1962 and 1973 in Hampshire and Sussex.
One of his victims said she and her family were in ‘a state of disbelief’.
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