AUSTRALIA
The Dallas Morning News
By Reese Dunklin/Reporter
rdunklin@dallasnews.com
12:49 pm on February 8, 2013
More legal trouble faces one of the most notorious priests whom we profiled in our landmark 2004-2005 series on the Catholic Church’s international transfers of sex abusers.
The Rev. Frank Klep appeared in a Melbourne, Australia, court this week after his arrest on six new criminal charges. Those date to the 1970s, when he worked at a boys boarding school operated by his religious order, the Salesians of Don Bosco.
Klep’s arrest is one of the first made by a police task force pursuing leads from a state parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse. In the early stages of that inquiry last fall, police had cited Klep’s criminal past and many of the details I first reported in 2004.
The Salesians transferred Klep to the Pacific island of Samoa in 1998 while police were investigating him. Klep already had one molestation conviction, and more charges were filed subsequently in the ongoing probe.
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