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7 March 2017

'It just blows me away': Judge stunned by church's legal aid to paedophile

A Victorian judge said evidence the Catholic Church continues to fund the legal defence of one of Australia's worst paedophiles, Robert Charles Best, "just blows me away".
On Monday Best, 76, pleaded guilty in the County Court of Victoria to sexually abusing 20 young victims between 1968 and 1988 at schools in Ballarat, Box Hill, Geelong and Moonee Ponds.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/its-hard-not-to-get-angry-judge-stunned-by-churchs-legal-aid-to-paedophile-20170220-gugz81.html