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Ballarat to Sydney in 1982. At least one of Ridsdale's victims, his nephew David Ridsdale, testified that Pell "tried to bribe" him "into keeping quiet" during a February 1983 phone conversation. Doubt was cast on how David Risdale interpreted the conversation. The commission also found that Pell was sufficiently conscious of child sexual abuse by clergy by 1973 to have considered measures of avoiding situations where it might occur, such as clergy taking boys on overnight camps.
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including two counts of rape and one of buggery, for abusing 12 children, 11 boys and 1 girl aged 6 to 13, between 1962 and 1988 in
Ballarat and the surrounding area. Ridsdale was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment, with five years cumulative. One of the victims told the court she was abused numerous times by Ridsdale, including being assaulted on the altar of a Ballarat church, while another victim said that Ridsdale abused him hundreds of times. The number of known victims of Ridsdale is now 65.
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committed between 1960 and 1980 and asked for a further 27 counts to be taken into consideration at sentencing. After pleading guilty to the above charges, including raping and abusing children as young as four, Ridsdale was sentenced to eight years in prison in April 2014, with the judge ordering he be eligible for parole in April 2019. These charges brought the number of
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Ridsdale had abused boys and again did nothing to stop the abuse from occurring. The commission found that "Bishop Mulkearns again was derelict in his duty in failing to take any effective action to have Ridsdale referred to police and to restrict Ridsdale's contact with children."
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On 13 April 2017, Ridsdale pleaded guilty to a further 20 offences against 10 boys and a girl. These offences were committed between 1961 and 1988 in western
Victoria and were also expected to extend his release date further into the future. On 15 August 2017, Ridsdale pleaded guilty to 23 charges,
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against 10 boys between 1970 and 1987 in Bacchus Marsh, Ballarat, Warrnambool, Edenhope, Horsham and Mortlake. He was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment with a minimum of seven years, three years of which was ordered to be served concurrently (the remainder of the previous sentence). A few of his
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A Victorian man, known to the royal commission as 'BAQ', alleged abuse by Ridsdale in the 1970s. On 10 April 2021, 'BAQ' was given a $ 1.5m settlement on the eve of the matter going to trial. 'BAQ' was a pupil at St Alipius Boys' School, Ballarat where Risdale served as the school's chaplain.
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