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Almost four years after his last sentence for abusing children, the Christian Brothers have still not moved to kick Robert Best out of the order.
Source: AAP
The Christian Brothers have still not made any move to expel convicted pedophile Robert Best from the Catholic order, four years after his latest conviction.
Best has not asked from his jail cell to be removed from the Brotherhood and no-one in the order has taken any initiative to kick him out, the child sex abuse royal commission has heard.
Christian Brothers Oceania Province leader Brother Peter Clinch, who has been in the role since July, said he has not raised the issue of Best’s dispensation process with Rome.
“The matter has not come to my attention yet because he’s still in prison and it hasn’t come to my attention to take it further at this stage,” he told the commission on Friday.
He said Best will be in his 80s when he gets out of jail.
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