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Gerald Francis Ridsdale (born 20 May 1934) is an Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender.He was convicted between 1993 and 2017 of a large number of child sexual abuse and indecent assault charges against 65 children aged as young as four years.
Porter's lawyer struck a plea bargain on 41 charges, and Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison, with the possibility of parole, with counseling, after six years. [9] Parole was consistently denied for several years. Porter completed his prison sentence in 2004, but was held until his death pending a civil commitment hearing. [1]
In 2009, he was convicted of ten federal counts of taking minors across state lines for sex, and sentenced to 150 years in federal prison. [2] Shoko Asahara - Founder of Aum Shinrikyo sentenced to death by hanging under Japanese law for involvement in the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. [3]
A priest with Mansfield ties got life in prison. ... Zacharias' crimes spanned 15 years, from July 2005 to August 2020. ... News Journal's top 10 stories include jail death trial and priest case ...
Richard Roger Lavigne (February 18, 1941 – May 21, 2021) [1] [2] was a laicized priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts and convicted sex offender. Lavigne was at the center of the priest abuse scandal in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts with about 40 claims of sexual abuse of minors placed against him.
In January 2008 "Brother Gregory" (real name Martin Meaney) admitted to abusing a boy 20 or 30 times in a four-month period in 1972, apologized unreservedly and was sentenced on five sample charges to two years imprisonment. He described the boy as "a weak little lad", and told police he had "picked on children who were not getting love at home".
Schmidt was suspected in the deaths of two children. The owner of the apartment complex where Schmidt was living said she sometimes saw him bringing a 5-year-old boy to his living room. Schmidt claimed the boy was his son. That boy had since disappeared. When the woman asked the boy for his name, he said it was August Van Dyke. [33]
1994, 4 years, +3 (concurrent); 12 years (died one month into sentence) Brendan Smyth O.Praem (8 June 1927 – 22 August 1997) was a Catholic priest and convicted sex offender from Belfast , Northern Ireland , who became notorious as a child molester , using his position in the Catholic Church to obtain access to his victims.