link to article: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/08/15/11/10/pedophile-priest-gerald-francis-ridsdale-faints-on-way-to-court

a list of his sick pedo crimes ( Clearly this scum was covered for and his helpers are still walking free)

AUSTRALIA'S MOST PROLIFIC PEDOPHILE PRIEST GERALD FRANCIS RIDSDALE'S LIFE AND OFFENDING

1934 - Born May 20, St Arnaud, Victoria

Primary school St Aloysius, Redan

Secondary school St Patrick's College, Ballarat

1954-1958 - Studied for priesthood Corpus Christi College, Werribee. Began offending.

1958-1960 - Seminary, Collegio Brignole Sale, Genoa

1960-1961 - Seminary, All Hallows College, Dublin

1961 - July 25, ordained at St Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat

• Fills in at five parishes including Horsham, Inglewood, Camperdown and Ballarat North

1962-1964 - Assistant priest at Ballarat North. First complaint from a boy at Villa Maria boarding school in Ballarat East

1964-1974 - Assistant priest Mildura, Swan Hill, Warrnambool and Ballarat East

1974-1975 - Parish priest Apollo Bay. Puts in for transfer after a man tells him in a pub there's talk about him and kids

1975 - Parish priest Inglewood. Panics and leaves overnight after a woman says there is talk he has been interfering with boys and police are making inquiries. Sent for counselling

Early 1976 - Temporarily appointed to Bungaree

1976-1979 - Administrator then parish priest Edenhope

1980 - Study leave, National Pastoral Institute. Offended there

1981-1982 - Parish priest Mortlake. Prolific offender

1982 - Starts on-and-off counselling

1982-1985 - Catholic Enquiry Centre, Sydney. Offends against boy from parish prayer group who became his altar boy. Centre director says "I want him out of here"

Early 1986 - Short periods as Woy Woy assistant priest and Forestville administrator, both in then Sydney archdiocese

July 1986-May 1988 - Assistant priest Horsham. Written complaint about offending while in Horsham

April 1988 - Steps down from parish work

June 1988 - Suspended for 12 months

1989-1990 - Residential program in New Mexico. Admitted to police he offended in US

Ridsdale says didn't offend from time he returned to Australia and his 1993 arrest

March/April 1991 - Assistant priest St John of God Hospital, Richmond, NSW

May 1993 - Admits indecently assaulting eight children. Sentenced to two years and three months.

November 1993 - Laicised

August 1994 - Admits abusing 20 boys and one girl from 1961-1982.

October 1994 - Jailed for 18 years

August 2006 - Sentenced to 13 years; admits abusing 10 boys from 1970-1987

April 2014 - Sentenced to eight years; admits abusing 11 boys, three girls from 1961-1980

December 2016 - Charged with 36 fresh historical sex abuse charges related to offences that allegedly took place in Ballarat, Ocean Grove, Merbein, Edenhope, Quantong, Mortlake and Riverside

March 2017 - Two further charges added

April 2017 - Ridsdale pleads guilty to 23 charges related the abuse of another 12 victims in Ballarat

August 2017 - Faces pre-sentencing hearing in Victorian County Court.

GERALD FRANCIS RIDSDALE'S CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

• Australia's most prolific pedophile priest has been in jail since August, 1994

• Convicted of 138 offences against 53 victims

• Total effective sentence of 28 years' jail, before 2017 charges

• Has pleaded guilty to another 20 offences against 11 victims

• Believed to have abused up to 1000 children, victims' group Broken Rites says

• First conviction in 1961, the year he was ordained, but began offending while in the seminary in the 1950s

• Defrocked in 1993 after first convictions

1993 COURT CASE

• Convicted of sexually assaulting eight children

• Pleaded guilty to 27 offences

• Sentenced to two years and three months, suspended after three months

1994 COURT CASE

• Convicted of sexually assaulting 20 boys and one girl

• Pleaded guilty to 46 offences between 1961 and 1982

• Included abusing a boy and girl after presiding over their father's funeral and indecently assaulting an altar boy during confession

• Jailed for 18 years, with 15-year minimum

2006 COURT CASE

• Convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys from 1970-1987

• Pleaded guilty to 35 offences

• Sentenced to 13 years' jail, with seven-year minimum

• Included sexual abuse in the confessional, in the sacristy, in the presbytery, in his car; following Mass, first holy communion, confirmation, weddings and funerals

2014 COURT CASE

• Convicted of sexually abusing 11 boys and three girls

• Pleads guilty to 30 offences between 1961 and 1980

• Victims included a girl aged four when offending began, three children in one family

• Sentenced to eight years' jail, with five-year minimum

2017 COURT CASE

• Has pleaded guilty to 23 offences against 11 boys and one girl

• Majority indecent assault charges

ABUSE CLAIMS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

• 78 people made claims about Ridsdale to church

• Cover abuse from 1961 to 1988

• Compensation totalling $2.42m (including treatment, legal and other costs) paid to 32 victims who pursued civil claims; average almost $76,000

• Total of $1.2m paid to 28 victims through redress process; average $43,000

• Based on claims received by Ballarat diocese from January 1980-February 2015.