AUSTRALIA
TVNZ
Gerald Ridsdale knew he was committing “serious sins” and hurting the children he sexually abused, yet he never stopped nor thought for a moment about the lives he was destroying.
Australia’s worst pedophile priest can’t even remember the names of all the children he abused over four decades.
Hearing that one boy would not let anyone touch him after the abuse, the 81-year-old said he never thought about the impact of what he had done.
“I didn’t know that then, but I do now,” Ridsdale told the child sex abuse royal commission’s Ballarat inquiry.
He was only concerned for his own sexual gratification? “That’s right.”
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