A unfrocked clergyman regarded as Australia's worst paedophile priest has been accused of molesting every boy aged 10 to 16 at a school in a small town where he served as parish priest.
A royal commission into child sex abuse heard that Father Gerald Ridsdale abused more than 50 children over three decades, including all of the boys at the school in Mortlake, which is in the state of Victoria and has a population of about 1,000.
Ridsdale, along with two other notorious child sex abusers, operated a paedophile ring for years in and around the city of Ballarat, near Melbourne.
The commission heard that, in 1971, each of the male teachers and the chaplain at the St Alipius primary school was molesting children.
Philip Nagle, who was abused at the school, held up a photograph of his fourth grade class and said that twelve of the 33 boys had since committed suicide. He said he was abused by a teacher named Brother Stephen Francis Farrell and that he knew the molesting was going to begin whenever he saw Mr Farrell remove his glasses. Full story..
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A royal commission into child sex abuse heard that Father Gerald Ridsdale abused more than 50 children over three decades, including all of the boys at the school in Mortlake, which is in the state of Victoria and has a population of about 1,000.
Ridsdale, along with two other notorious child sex abusers, operated a paedophile ring for years in and around the city of Ballarat, near Melbourne.
The commission heard that, in 1971, each of the male teachers and the chaplain at the St Alipius primary school was molesting children.
Philip Nagle, who was abused at the school, held up a photograph of his fourth grade class and said that twelve of the 33 boys had since committed suicide. He said he was abused by a teacher named Brother Stephen Francis Farrell and that he knew the molesting was going to begin whenever he saw Mr Farrell remove his glasses. Full story..
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