December 16, 2005

Priest sent to jail for assaults

AUSTRALIA
The Age

By Daniella Miletic
December 17, 2005

PRIEST who sexually assaulted 11 teenagers at a Melbourne college while they recovered in the school infirmary has been jailed.

Frank Gerard Klep will serve a non-parole period of one year in jail after being sentenced yesterday to three years with two years suspended for three years.

Klep, 62, molested boys aged between 12 and 17 when he was a teacher at the Salesian order's Rupertswood College in Sunbury in the 1970s.

Klep pleaded guilty in the County Court to 14 charges of unlawful and indecent assault on students recovering in the infirmary, which he supervised.

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