Pedophile Priest Pleads Guilty To Raping 12-Year-Old On Church Altar
Baxter Dmitry
YourNewsWire.com
August 17, 2017
Pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on a church altar, as well as sex crimes against another 12 children, one as young as six, during three decades of abusing children under the auspices of the Catholic Church.
Ridsdale, who operated in western Victoria, Australia, told some of his victims the abuse was “part of God’s work”, the Victorian County Court heard on Tuesday.
News.com.au reports: On one occasion in 1974 a father woke his scared young daughter to take her to a Catholic Church in Ballarat where Ridsdale abused her.
“(The 10-year-old’s) father carried her to the confessional booth and took her clothes off her, then carried her to the altar and lay her down,” crown prosecutor Jeremy McWilliams said.
Ridsdale then indecently assaulted her.
“Ridsdale told her: ‘Jesus died for our sins so we could be forgiven and if I confess to this sin I might be forgiven’.
“Then he kissed her on the cheek.” Ridsdale told a nine-year-old altar boy “God will forgive all of your sins” as he raped him, Mr McWilliams said.
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