Convicted paedophile Robin Fletcher, who has claimed his religion endorses sex between children and adults, has lost his bid to have a strict supervision order relaxed while living in a sex-offender facility.
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Supreme Court Justice Phillip Priest ordered the supervision order for Fletcher, 59, who is legally blind, remain unchanged until at least June 2016.
"I am satisfied that [Fletcher] still poses an unacceptable risk of committing a relevant offence if a supervision order is not in effect," Justice Priest.
Fletcher has been living at Corella Place - which houses offenders who have finished their sentences but are deemed to have an unacceptable risk of reoffending - since his release in 2006 after serving eight years' jail for raping and prostituting two 15-year-old girls.
He has also refused to participate in sex-offender rehabilitation during his time at Corella Place.
The village-style complex, next to Ararat's Hopkins Correctional Centre in western Victoria, has no walls surrounding the facility, but residents are monitored with electronic bracelets and cannot leave without permission.
During his trial the court heard that Fletcher was working as a drug-abuse and sexual guidance youth counsellor in South Caulfield in the 1990s when he used hypnotism and mind-altering techniques to ensnare the two 15-year-olds, telling them it was necessary to fulfil their destiny as "high priestesses of the dark covenant".
He subjected the girls to violent sexual acts, including whipping them with a riding crop, the court was told.
Under his supervision order, Fletcher is not allowed access to whips or chains, and his online activity has to be approved by authorities.
The Department of Justice is expected to decide before June 2016 whether it will apply for an extension of Fletcher's supervision order after that date.
During his trial Fletcher claimed that his pagan Wicca religion permits, even encourages, sexual activity between adults and young people under the age of consent.
He told psychiatrists that his diverse deviant sexual interests were part of his religion, and maintained that any attempt to stop him engaging in these activities amounted to religious persecution.
Authorities were alarmed by intercepted letters Fletcher had written to men in Ghana, in which he said he wanted to travel to the West African country on his release on parole to put his religious theories into practice.
Fletcher's letters also detailed his desire for young children to be initiated into sexual practices.
