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Daily Mail (UK)
‘Your conduct plumbs the depths of evil hypocrisy’: Judge breaks down in TEARS and has to leave court during sentencing of paedophile priest who abused 15 boys
A judge was forced to halt his sentencing of a Victorian paedophile priest after he became visibly upset while speaking about his ‘evil’ crimes.
Judge Frank Gucciardo choked back tears and had to briefly leave the courtroom after describing the impact of Frank Klep’s abuse of 15 schoolchildren during his sentencing on Monday morning.
He remained outside the courtroom for several minutes before he came back in, apologised and continued to hand down the sentence.
Klep, 70, was jailed for 10 and a half years after preying on sick and vulnerable boys while running the infirmary at Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury more than 30 years ago.
‘The young men you have abused were broken by your conduct,’ Judge Gucciardo said.
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