VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
Associated Press
March 27, 2019
By Caroline Schelle
A boy was homesick and upset during a Victorian school camp when a priest molested him more than 40 years ago.
Notorious pedophile priest and teacher Frank Gerard Klep admitted abusing the boy at a Salesian College camp at Dromana in the 1970s.
It was the second night of the camp and the 12-year-old boy was upset and homesick when Klep came and sat on his bed.
The priest initially started to comfort the boy, but then molested him.
“The accused’s actions left him (the victim) shocked and numb,” prosecutor Stephen Devlin told the Victorian County Court on Wednesday.
Klep also ingratiated himself with the boy’s family, helping his mother get a job at the college, Mr Devlin said.
Another victim was assaulted when he went to the school’s sick bay.
“The anger inside me at times is overwhelming,” the survivor said in a statement read out to the court.
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