AUSTRALIA
Sky News
One of Australia’s worst child sex predators, pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale, is expected to die in prison.
The former Catholic priest will be sentenced on Tuesday for abusing 14 children at parishes in Victoria’s western district, between 1961 and 1980.
He has now admitted his guilt in assaulting 53 children in abuse that spanned three decades.
Ridsdale’s latest charges include grooming a four-year-old victim by calling her ‘God’s little angel’ and telling an altar boy he was doing ‘the Lord’s work’ as he abused him.
One victim told Ridsdale’s Victorian County Court plea hearing in March he had hidden behind the Catholic Church as he abused children.
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