UNITED KINGDOM
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
Published on Thursday 28 June 2012
A RETIRED Anglican priest who was once a head of governors at a Bexhill school has been charged with a string of sex offences against children.
Gordon Trevor Rideout, 73, of Filching Close, Wannock, was charged with 38 sexual offences against 18 young girls and boys on Wednesday June 27.
Thirty-six of the alleged offences are of indecent assault on girls and boys in their early teens. Thirty-one are alleged to have been committed at an address in Crawley, and one in Barkingside, Essex, between 1962 and 1968, and four are alleged to have taken place at an address in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, between 1971 and 1973.
The other two alleged offences are of attempted unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl in Crawley between 1962 and 1966.
Rideout, who was chair of governors at St Mary’s special school as well as a governor at Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne, been arrested on March 6.
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