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Frank Klep, a former priest and Victorian school principal, has been sentenced for 10 years for sexually abusing 15 boys in the 1970s and ’80s.
A judge has choked back tears as he condemned a pedophile priest for plunging to “the depths of evil hypocrisy” by abusing vulnerable schoolboys.
Victorian County Court Judge Frank Gucciardo said Frank Klep used vulnerable young men for his “vile sexual gratification”.
Klep preyed on boarders and sick children sent to his care at the infirmary he controlled at Salesian College, Rupertswood, and continued the abuse when he returned to the school as principal.
He abused more than two dozen boys at the school in the 1970s and 1980s, knowing his position of authority would keep his victims silent.
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