ULTIMO (NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
May 14, 2020
By Iskhandar Razak
Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will spend at least another three years in jail after pleading guilty to 14 new offences committed against young boys under his care.
“Your sexual abuse, at times when the child was seeking comfort, reveals your utter hypocrisy,” the sentencing Judge Gerard Mullaly said.
“They were vulnerable children and you simply used them and violated them for your perverse sexual gratification.”
Ridsdale has been in prison since 1994 and was already serving a 33-year sentence for abusing more than 60 children in Victoria, but his non-parole period was due to expire in 2022.
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