(AUSTRALIA)
3BA 102.3FM [Ballarat, AU]
March 31, 2023
By Danielle Delalande
Pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale is set to plead guilty to more horrific sex crimes.
The latest charge involves a young boy at Horsham in the late 1980s.
The 89-year-old faced the Ballarat magistrates court via videolink yesterday.
He’s currently imprisoned in Ararat, serving a 36-year jail sentence for abusing close to 70 victims.
Ridsdale has been serving concurrent sentences since first being charged in 1993. On 15 August 2017, Ridsdale pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including two counts of rape and one of buggery, for abusing 12 children, 11 boys and 1 girl aged 6 to 13, between 1962 and 1988 in Ballarat and the surrounding area.
He’ll return to court in June.