UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A retired Church of England priest from East Sussex has been charged with committing 38 sexual offences against 18 children and young teenagers.
Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, of Filching Close, Wannock, is alleged to have committed the offences between 1962 and 1973 in Crawley, London and Hampshire.
He was arrested at his home in March following a nine-month investigation and charged on Wednesday night.
He will appear before Mid Sussex magistrates on 16 July.
A total of 36 of the 38 alleged offences are of indecent assault on girls and boys in their early teens, Sussex Police said.
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