AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By court reporter Peta Carlyon

The head of the Christian Brothers’ Oceania chapter has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse there are no plans to remove paedophile Robert Best from the order.

Best is one of three Christian Brothers who worked in Ballarat in regional Victoria, who have been convicted of abusing children under their care.

He is currently in prison, but is expected to be released when he is aged in his 80s.

Fellow Christian Brother and notorious paedophile Edward Dowlan, now known as Ted Bales, is also in prison and was removed from the order.

But Brother Peter Clinch indicated there were no plans to stop Best from using the Brother title on release.

The commission heard he is not using it in prison.