UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A retired Anglican priest accused of 37 sex attacks against children used to wander a children’s home unaccompanied and visit the dormitories, Lewes Crown Court has heard.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, Polegate, East Sussex, denies 35 indecent assaults and two attempted rapes.
Thirty two of the charges relate to his time as an assistant curate in Crawley, when he would visit a West Sussex home.
He is accused of abusing boys and girls there between 1962 and 1973.
Prosecuting, Philip Bennetts QC said: “It would appear from the evidence that he would wander the house and indeed the grounds unaccompanied, and he would visit children when they were sick and alone in bed.”
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