UNITED KINGDOM
Guardian
11:19am Thursday 28th June 2012 in News By Dominic Sutton
A RETIRED priest has been charged with 38 sexual offences against 18 children.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, of Filching Close, Wannock, Polegate, East Sussex has been on bail since his arrest on March 6, but was charged with the offences yesterday (June 27).
A total of 36 of the offences are of indecent assault alleged to have been committed on boys and girls in their early teens between 1962 and 1973.
One of those charges relates to an alleged offence which took place in Barkingside in the 1960s. The other charges relate to addresses in Crawley and Hampshire.
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