Vic ex-priest admits abusing more boys

AUSTRALIA
Infosurhoy

October 27, 2018

By Marta Subat

A notorious pedophile and defrocked Catholic priest has admitted sexually abusing more boys in Victoria during the 1970s and 80s.

Frank Gerard Klep, 75, appeared via video link in the County Court of Victoria on Friday, when he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting three boys under 16 between 1976 and 1982.

He is serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for molesting 15 schoolboys, many of whom were sleeping when he attacked them.

Klep, who was a priest and teacher at Salesian College Rupertswood at Sunbury between 1972 and 1979 and its principal between 1982 to 1986, was convicted in 1994 of sex offences in the 1970s against a student at the school.

In 1998, he was sent to Samoa on a missionary trip while facing further sex charges, but was deported after failing

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