AUSTRALIA
9 News
Australia’s worst pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will likely have to again appear before the child sex abuse royal commission.
Ridsdale has finished two days testifying as part of its investigation into widespread abuse by clergy in the Ballarat diocese and the response of the Catholic Church.
Church lawyers have asked for time to consider Ridsdale’s evidence before questioning him.
Ridsdale is now likely to be recalled either at or before the commission’s second Ballarat hearing, expected to be held in November or December.
The commission may sit in Sydney if Ridsdale is questioned before the second hearing.
Ridsdale, giving evidence via videolink from jail, could remember very few details about who in the church knew of his offending and moved him from parish to parish.
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