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29 August 2017

Australia: Court Hears Harrowing Accounts of Child Abuse in Diocese Linked to Vatican Cardinal George Pell

An Australian court heard harrowing details of historic child abuse perpetrated by former priest Gerald Ridsdale, one of Australia’s most notorious pedophiles.
Ridsdale, 83, pleaded guilty to 23 charges Tuesday, including two counts of rape and one of buggery, for abusing 12 children, aged 6 to 13, between 1962 and 1988 in the Victoria state city of Ballarat and the surrounding area.

http://www.newsweek.com/australia-court-hears-harrowing-accounts-child-abuse-diocese-linked-vatican-651096