AUSTRALIA
The Age
Adam Cooper
The Christian Brothers have made no moves to expel paedophile Robert Charles Best from their order despite him pleading guilty to another slew of child-sex offences spanning 20 years.
Best appeared before Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, via video link from prison, to plead guilty to sexually abusing 15 boys in Ballarat and Box Hill between 1968 and 1982 and in Geelong in 1987 and 1988.
The 75-year-old was in 2011 jailed for 14 years for abusing 11 boys he taught at schools in Ballarat, Box Hill and Geelong between 1969 and 1988.
Soon after his plea, the Christian Brothers Province of Oceania issued a statement reiterating their “unreserved apology” for Best’s “grievous betrayal of trust”, and urging people to contact police if they had been sexually assaulted.
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