AUSTRALIA
Wimmera Mail-Times
Tuesday, 2 August 2005
FORMER Wimmera priest Gerald Ridsdale faced 63 new child abuse charges in Ballarat Magistrates Court last week.
The 71-year-old convicted paedophile faced 59 counts of indecent assault and four counts of buggery allegedly committed against nine victims during the 1970s and 1980s.
Ridsdale appeared by video link from Ararat prison.