AUSTRALIA
The Dallas Morning News
By Reese Dunklin
rdunklin@dallasnews.com
9:45 am on December 27, 2013
A notorious figure from our 2004-2005 series about the Catholic Church’s global transfer of sexually abusive priests has admitted to molesting even more children.
Australian prosecutors had filed 34 criminal charges against Frank Klep. That number was cut to 12 in a guilty plea this month, according to news reports. The 70-year-old now awaits an April pre-sentencing hearing in Melbourne.
During the recent court hearing, Klep said only one word.
“Guilty.”
This is Klep’s third time through Australia’s justice system. The latest charges arose from a parliamentary inquiry last year and involve 14 now-grown boys.
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