Gerald Ridsdale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Former Australian priest and convicted criminal
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Place of Birth: St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
About Gerald Ridsdale
- Gerald Francis Ridsdale (born 20 May 1934), an Australian laicised Catholic priest, was convicted between 1993 and 2017 of a large number of child sexual abuse and indecent assault charges against 65 children aged as young as four years.
- The offences occurred from the 1960s to the 1980s while Ridsdale worked as a school chaplain at St Alipius Primary School, a boys‘ boarding school in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat.
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that senior figures in the church knew about Ridsdale's abusing children but protected him.
- Ridsdale was ordained at St Patrick's Cathedral in Ballarat in 1961.
- The first complaint about his behaviour towards children was received by the church that same year.
- Ridsdale held 16 different appointments over a period of 29 years as a priest, with an average of 1.8 years per appointment.
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