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Church sex abuse liability

Peter Bannan

THE floodgates for sex abuse victims seeking compensation could open after the Catholic Church accepted legal responsibility for the sexual abuse of a nine-year-old boy by notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale. After denying any knowledge of Ridsdale’s offending before the boy was raped in a confessional box at Mortlake in 1982, lawyers for the church last […]

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