AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Victims are praying Australia’s worst pedophile priest reveals the full story of what the Catholic Church knew about his offending.
Defrocked priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale will testify before the child sex abuse royal commission’s Ballarat inquiry on Wednesday and Thursday, from his jail cell.
He will not be asked about his offending, after being convicted in four separate court cases of abusing more than 50 children.
But the royal commission and victims want to know who was responsible for moving Ridsdale from parish to parish, allowing him to continue to offend.
Andrew Collins, who was abused by other clergy in the Ballarat diocese, said victims wanted the truth made public about who essentially facilitated the abusers.
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