In 1973, a young Father George Pell, flushed with success from his
recent studies in Rome and Oxford, returned to his home town of Ballarat
and took up residence in the St Alipius presbytery; a place, it would
be publicly revealed more than 20 years later, that was a paedophile’s
paradise and a child’s nightmare.
His housemate that year was the tall, rowdy and popular parish priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale. What the parents and parishioners who worshipped God and obeyed the sanctity of the church and its messengers did not know was that from early in his priesthood, Ridsdale was subject to a psychiatric report. He was already a serial child abuser who sodomised children at will, picking them off when and where his desires dictated: in front of a church altar, at the presbytery, or on camping or fishing trips.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/feature/girls-paedophile-and-cardinal-pell
His housemate that year was the tall, rowdy and popular parish priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale. What the parents and parishioners who worshipped God and obeyed the sanctity of the church and its messengers did not know was that from early in his priesthood, Ridsdale was subject to a psychiatric report. He was already a serial child abuser who sodomised children at will, picking them off when and where his desires dictated: in front of a church altar, at the presbytery, or on camping or fishing trips.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/feature/girls-paedophile-and-cardinal-pell
