Abuser priest to testify a second day

AUSTRALIA
Gazette Herald

Pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale will resume giving proof for a second day earlier than the kid intercourse abuse royal fee’s Ballarat inquiry.

On Wednesday, he revealed how he had a longtime sample of discovering victims, befriending their households and establishing drop-in centres to lure weak younger boys.

However, victims have been disillusioned that his testimony revealed only a few particulars about who within the church knew of his offending and moved him from parish to parish.

Instead Ridsdale testified that he couldn’t even recall sharing a presbytery with Cardinal George Pell in 1970s.

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