Barkingside: Retired Priest Rearrested after Fresh Child Abuse Allegations

By Joe Curtis
The Guardian
April 17, 2012

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A former priest bailed on suspicion of historic child sex abuse cases has been rearrested over four fresh allegations.

Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, of Eastbourne, was arrested and bailed in March on suspicion of abusing nine young people in areas including Barkingside.

The alleged assaults are meant to have taken place between 1965 and 1972 and the retired Anglican priest was rearrested yesterday (April 16) over allegations of four different sexual abuse cases from the same period that have now come to light.

A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "A 73-year-old man from Eastbourne is being interviewed on suspicion of four sexual assaults on young people during the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ifield, West Sussex and Middle Wallop, in Hampshire."