GORDON RIDEOUT; PEDOPHILE RING

Gordon Rideout, from Polegate, East Sussex, in the UK.

Canon Gordon Rideout was chaplain  on a military base in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, in the UK.

In the 1970s Canon Gordon Rideout was taken to a military court on child sex-abuse charges.

He was cleared by the military hearing.

Rideout was cleared of three indecent assaults by a court martial in 1972. One of Rideout's victims, June Potter said: "We went out of our way to write statements and everything. I gave them names."

Canon Gordon Rideout went on to sexually abuse young girls and boys across the south of England.

Rideout was chairman of governors at St Mary's special school in Bexhill until 2009.


Vincent S. aged 10 yrs, from Grafton Children's Home, was taken to Elm Guest House (above) and to a house in Bexhill.

Reportedly, pedophile rings use children's care homes throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.


Elm Guest House in London, reportedly used by a man responsible for supervising the UK security service MI5.

Rideout abused kids at a Barnardo's home, at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex

He savagely beat the kids who tried to speak out.

Barnardo's is a children's charity associated with child abuse.

Prince Charles's wife Camilla became president of Barnardo's in 2007, replacing Cherie Blair.

Rideout has now been found guilty of 34 counts of indecent assault and two counts of attempted rape on 16 children between 1962 and 1973.

He was cleared of one count of indecent assault on a boy at a second Barnardo's home in Essex.

As an assistant curate at St Mary's Church in Crawley, in the diocese of Chichester, Rideout used to visit the Barnardo's children's home at Ifield Hall in Crawley.


Ifield Hall

Rideout attempted to rape a girl who attended choir practice.

After another rape attempt in a wooded area, a girl believed she was pregnant. 

When a manager at the home was informed, the girl victim was slapped across her face. 

The Barnardo's home had a ‘brutal regime where children were taught how to behave by beatings’.


Rideout, from the scandal-hit diocese of Chichester.

One girl told the police: ‘I was too scared, too scared. I didn't want to be beaten again, too scared. The beatings were so much worse than what that man was doing. The beatings were terrible, absolutely terrible.’

Another victim said she told the married couple who ran the home that the priest was abusing them.

They responded by throwing her against a wall, breaking one of her ribs.

Rideout is the latest figure from the scandal-hit diocese of Chichester to be convicted of sex crimes against children.



Several clergymen from the diocese have been arrested, charged and convicted of child sexual abuse.

Investigations into Rideout began after police were handed a confidential report by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in May 2011.

Another priest referred to in the report, Robert Coles, of Eastbourne, was jailed for eight years in February 2013 for sex offences against young boys.

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Canon Gordon Rideout was a serial sex offender who preyed on young children across the south of England.

He could have been stopped more than 40 years ago.


Rideout was cleared of three indecent assaults by a court martial in 1972

Rideout was chaplain at Moira House School, Eastbourne, until 2003.

He was chairman of governors at St Mary's special school in Bexhill until 2009.

He was chairman of governor at Bishop Bell Church of England School in Eastbourne until November 2011.

Stephen Ward, with Christine Keeler to his right, knew the Rothschilds. President Kennedy 'slept with one of Ward's girls'.

According to Anonymous, (Scandalous Women: Christine Keeler and the Profumo Affair):

"Dr Stephen Ward... worked on a secret program for the USA, called Operation Monarch.

"Mind control, remote seeing ... Christine Keeler often said 'Ward controlled her'...

"Stephen Ward also helped out at ... Barnardo's with the traumatised kids (many had been beaten and raped etc.)

The notorious Barnardos. Website for this image

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