21/05/2013

Retired CoE Priest Jailed For Catalogue Of Abuse

Retired Church of England priest, Canon Gordon Rideout, has been jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of a catalogue of sexual abuse.

The 74-year-old was found guilty of 34 charges of indecent assault and two of attempted rape. He abused 16 children over between 1962 and 1973.

According to the Guardian more than a dozen boys and girls were abused over four years at a Barnardo’s home at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex.

And two girls were indecently assaulted at an army site in Middle Wallop, Hampshire.

(MH/CD)


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