AUSTRALIA
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A FORMER Victorian priest and principal has admitted to sexually assaulting 14 schoolboys, many of whom were sleeping when they were attacked.

Frank Gerard Klep, 70, confessed to sexually assaulting the boys at Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury during the 1970s and ’80s.

He was the school’s principal when he preyed on several of his victims.

Klep, of Burwood, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault, plus one count each of rape and attempted buggery, in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday.

It is the third time Klep has either pleaded guilty to or been convicted of abusing schoolboys.