UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Shane Croucher
March 6, 2012
Two retired Church of England priests in East Sussex have been arrested over allegations of child sex abuse going back to the 1960s.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, was arrested in Eastbourne on suspicion of sexual assaults committed against nine young people in Crawley in West Sussex, Barkingside in North East London, and Middle Wallop in Hampshire, between 1965 and 1972.
Parish priest Robert Coles, 70, was also arrested in Eastbourne on suspicion of sexual assaults against three young men in West Sussex during the late 1970’s and mid-1980’s.
Police treating the two arrests as separate enquiries.
They come after a six month investigation by Sussex Police’s child protection detectives.
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