AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
Convicted paedophile Robert Best, a Christian Brother, has pleaded guilty to more cases of child sexual abuse dating back nearly 50 years.
Best, 75, appeared via video link in the Melbourne Magistrates Court from Ararat Prison were he is serving a sentence for child abuse.
He has now admitted to abusing 15 boys between January 1968 and October 1988, at Box Hill, Geelong and Ballarat.
Dressed in a green prison jumper, Best sat still, blinking slowly before he pleaded guilty to 22 offences including indecent assault and false imprisonment.
Lawyers informed the court 17 other charges against him had been dropped as the matter had been resolved in a guilty plea.
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