The royal commission found that Ridsdale’s victims likely numbered in the hundreds and concluded that the late Cardinal George Pell was aware of the abuse by 1982. Pell, however, strongly ...

Pell, who died in January 2023, was a former housemate of Ridsdale, but always denied direct knowledge of his abuse of children. Today, walking through city streets in Ballarat, ribbons ...

Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale (left) outside court with George Pell (right) in 1993.Credit: Geoff Ampt The disgraced Catholic priest’s death was met with a sense of overwhelming relief from ...

The commission found Ridsdale's victims likely stretched into the hundreds and that the late Cardinal George Pell was aware of the abuse by 1982. That finding was strongly disputed by Pell ...

When he appeared before the child sex abuse royal commission, Ridsdale distanced himself from late cardinal George Pell, who ­attended court with him in 1993, and the pair lived together for a ...

Pell, who was found guilty in 2018 but later acquitted of raping one choirboy and molesting another at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in 1996, was a former housemate of Ridsdale's. The commission found ...

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The royal commission found that Ridsdale’s victims likely numbered in the hundreds and concluded that the late Cardinal George Pell was aware of the abuse by 1982. Pell, however, strongly disputed ...