AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

SHANNON DEERY HERALD SUN DECEMBER 02, 2013

FORMER Salesian College principal Frank Klep has pleaded guilty to a string of sex crimes against students at the college.

The 69-year-old former priest pleaded guilty to 14 charges at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning after prosecutors withdrew a further 22 charges.

Klep abused a several students at the college, including while acting as rector of the school, while teaching there during the 1970s and 1980s.

The convicted pedophile, who was jailed in 2005 for similar offending, was re-arrested by police this year after new victims came forward.

One victim told police Klep abused him just weeks after starting at the college when the priest saw him crying.