UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on 09/04/2013
The trial of retired Eastbourne priest Canon Gordon Rideout began at Lewes Crown Court yesterday (Monday).
The 74-year-old Church of England minister has pleaded not guilty to 38 sexual offences against 18 young boys and girls, some as young as five.
Rideout lives in Filching Close, Polegate, and is currently on bail.
Thirty-six of the alleged offences are of indecent assault on 16 girls and boys aged between five years old and their mid-teens, 31 of those are alleged to have been committed at a now closed Barnardos children’s home, Ifield Hall in West Sussex and one at a Barnardos children’s home in Essex between 1961 and 1967; and four are alleged to have taken place at an army site in Hampshire against two girls under 13 between 1971 and 1973.
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