AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Peta Carlyon
Paedophile Victorian priest Frank Klep has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for sex offences.
Klep taught at Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury, north of Melbourne, in the 1970s and ’80s.
He pleaded guilty to 15 sex offences involving many boys, including siblings at the school aged between 11 and 15.
The court heard Klep was in charge of the school’s sick bay and abused the boys when they came to him unwell.
Judge Frank Gucciardo described the 70-year-old’s conduct as appalling, predatory and vile, and said it had created devastating lifelong consequences for Klep’s victims and their families.
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