AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Shannon Deery, Herald Sun
January 9, 2017
CATHOLIC priest Gerald Ridsdale has been charged with fresh child sex offences.
The 82-year-old is listed to front the Melbourne Magistrates Court next week where it is expected he will appear via video-link.
The Herald Sun understands Ridsdale has been charged with abusing a string of children while working as a priest in the Ballarat diocese.
He worked at parishes including Ballarat, Mortlake and Warrnambool.
The charges follow Ridsdale’s evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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