Ridsdale had been in prison since 1994 for the abuse of more than 70 children in central and south-western Victoria and was sentenced for the eighth time in 2023. A further 62 new charges were ...

Gerald Ridsdale, who abused at least 72 children while serving as a Catholic priest, has died aged 90. Ridsdale's offending was central to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to ...

Gerald Ridsdale, who was convicted of abusing more than 70 children over three decades as a parish priest in Victoria’s west, died shortly before 10am on Tuesday. The 90-year-old was at the ...

Gerald Ridsdale, a convicted paedophile priest who abused over 70 children across three decades, has died at 90 in prison, where he had been held since 1994. His crimes began in 1961 when he was ...

For years, Paul Levey thought about returning to the presbytery in the Victorian town of Mortlake where he was sexually abused daily as a child by Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale. He dreamt of ...

Gerald Ridsdale, one of Australia's most infamous paedophile priests, has died at the age of 90. He was serving a lengthy prison sentence for abusing over 70 children, with further charges brought ...

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Gerald Ridsdale, a convicted paedophile priest who abused over 70 children across three decades, has died at 90 in prison, where he had been held since 1994. His crimes began in 1961 when he was ...

The death of sex offender Gerald Ridsdale has opened the way for potentially more victims to emerge amid estimates the former Catholic priest assaulted many hundreds of children. Ridsdale ...

Ridsdale abused more than 70 children over three decades as a parish priest in Victoria’s west. He had remained mostly unresponsive in recent weeks with one source telling the Herald Sun he had ...

Australia's most notorious and prolific paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale has died after being in prison for over thirty years. 90-year-old Ridsdale was convicted eight separate times of sexually ...