AUSTRALIA
SBS
Source: AAP
28 MAY 2015
The family of a boy abused by pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale in NSW visit him in jail in Victoria, not knowing their son was molested, the royal commission has heard.
Ridsdale said he could not remember offending against a child when he went to live at White Cliffs in NSW, after stepping down from parish work in 1988.
“I can’t think of anyone that I did,” he told the child sex abuse royal commission’s Ballarat inquiry on Thursday.
Senior counsel assisting the commission Gail Furness SC said there was a family Ridsdale met and became friendly with.
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