By a Broken Rites researcher
This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive
account available about how the Catholic Church harboured this
child-abuse criminal - Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale - for 30 years
while his superiors and fellow-priests remained silent to protect the
church's public image.
Eventually some of his victims (encouraged by Broken Rites
and other investigators) spoke to detectives in the Victoria Police
sex-crimes squad. In his four court cases between 1993 and 2014,
Ridsdale has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years for assaulting 54 of
his victims, but other victims of his have not yet contacted the
detectives. This Broken Rites article gives the full background.