AUSTRALIA
The Age
May 30, 2013
Jared Lynch
Police have interviewed convicted paedophile Catholic priest Gerard Ridsdale after more people came forward with allegations of abuse.
It is understood detectives from Taskforce Sano interviewed Ridsdale, 79, on Thursday afternoon.
The investigation comes as the Adult Parole Board told victims in a letter that Ridsdale could be released as soon as June 29.
Ridsdale was convicted of abusing more than 30 victims. But a woman whose sons were abused by him said the paedophile’s sister told her he had confessed to raping or molesting hundreds of children.
Victoria Police spokeswoman Natalie Webster confirmed detectives applied to Melbourne Magistrates Court to interview a 79-year-old Victorian man, ”in relation to historical child sexual abuse matters … in the 1960s and ’70s,
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