Former priests face court on abuse charges

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By court reporter Sarah Farnsworth

Former Catholic priest Frank Klep has faced the Melbourne Magistrates court on charges of child sex abuse dating back to the 1970s.

The former college principal of Salesian College Rupertswood, in Sunbury, is accused of six indecent assaults in 1974.

Police allege some of the alleged abuse also took place at Chadstone.

He was arrested yesterday as part of ongoing investigations by Taskforce Sano into allegations emanating from the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into child sex abuse.

A second former priest, Wilfred Baker, 76, of Greenvale, has also appeared in court accused of a serious of indecent assaults dating back to 1966.

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