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#TheGuardian Doctor accused of financing child abductions says crimes were covered up
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New South Wales doctor accused of financing an abduction ring that helped mothers take and hide their children in violation of family court orders says the truth will come out and he will be the one to expose it. William Russell Massingham Pridgeon, a 64-year-old Grafton doctor, is among those charged over their roles in a network that eluded authorities for a decade. He appeared in Brisbane magistrates court on Friday alongside co-accused Patrick O’Dea, Joyce Evelyn Fazldeen and Ariel Josephine Johnson. Patricia Ann Plaistead, a West Australian woman, remains at large. Federal police allege Pridgeon, founder of the Australian...