UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A priest who was jailed for sexually abusing children has had his application for release from prison on compassionate grounds rejected.
Canon Gordon Rideout, from Polegate, East Sussex, was jailed for 10 years in May for 36 separate sex offences.
The priest, in his 70s, abused 16 children between 1962 and 1973, in Hampshire and Sussex.
BBC South East learned he was recently released from prison to attend hospital on a temporary licence.
‘Utter disgust’
He later returned to jail. The Ministry of Justice said the nature of his hospital treatment was confidential.
One of his victims said she felt anguish at Rideout’s “obvious ploy to manipulate the system” with his application.
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