A former Catholic priest jailed for sexually abusing more than 70 children over decades has admitted to more crimes in court
Appearing in Bendigo Magistrates Court via video link from Port Phillip Prison as he lay in his prison bed, 90-year-old Gerald Ridsdale pleaded guilty to eight additional sexual assault charges against children.
Ridsdale is serving a maximum of 40 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to sexually abusing at least 72 children during the 1970s and ’80s while working as a Catholic priest at multiple schools and churches across Victoria.
If he serves out his current maximum sentence, Ridsdale will be at least 100 years old.
https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/08/...hild-rapes
Appearing in Bendigo Magistrates Court via video link from Port Phillip Prison as he lay in his prison bed, 90-year-old Gerald Ridsdale pleaded guilty to eight additional sexual assault charges against children.
Ridsdale is serving a maximum of 40 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to sexually abusing at least 72 children during the 1970s and ’80s while working as a Catholic priest at multiple schools and churches across Victoria.
If he serves out his current maximum sentence, Ridsdale will be at least 100 years old.
https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/08/...hild-rapes
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
