UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Echo
A retired Church of England priest has been found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children at a Barnardo’s home for vulnerable youngsters.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, abused more than a dozen girls and boys at the now closed home at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex, over a four-year period.
The former Anglican clergyman also indecently assaulted two girls at an Army site in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
At Lewes Crown Court, Rideout was found guilty of 34 counts of indecent assault and two counts of attempted rape on 16 children between January 1962 and January 1973.
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