Gerald Ridsdale

Gerald Francis Ridsdale , an Australian laicised Catholic priest, was convicted between 1993 and 2013 of a large number of child sexual abuse and indecent assault charges against 54 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 Boys School in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat.

Ridsdale was born at St Arnaud, in western Victoria and grew up in Ballarat.

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