AUSTRALIA
The Courier
Tammy Mills
20 Jan 2017
Notorious priest Gerald Ridsdale has fronted a packed Melbourne court on Friday morning on fresh child-sex charges.
The 82-year-old, was charged on December 28 with multiple offences against a number of alleged victims from across Victoria, appeared via videolink for a filing hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
The 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.
Mr Ridsdale said little in the short administration hearing except to confirm subsequent court dates with Magistrate Gwynn Carolene.
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