AUSTRALIA
The Age
Tom Cowie, Melissa Cunningham
Ridsdale, 82, will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court next Friday for a mention hearing as part of an investigation by Victoria Police’s Sano Taskforce.
The disgraced Catholic priest has been charged with multiple offences against a number of alleged victims from across Victoria.
Charges include rape, buggery and unlawful and indecent assault of children between the 1960s and 1980s, when he was a priest in the Ballarat diocese.
A number of Ridsdale’s alleged victims are understood to have come forward to Victoria Police in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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