AUSTRALIA
Australian Teacher Magazine
MELBOURNE, April 3 – Victims of a pedophile priest have walked out of a Melbourne court as he stood to deliver an apology.
Frank Gerard Klep, 70, has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 15 boys while a teacher and principal at Salesian College Rupertswood from 1973 to 1984.
As Klep stood to read a prepared apology, many of his victims left the courtroom.
“I abused your trust and betrayed you in the most appalling circumstances, for that I am truly sorry,” Klep said.
It is the third time Klep has either pleaded guilty to or been convicted of abusing schoolboys.
Many of the boys were sexually assaulted or raped while in beds at the school’s sick bay, which was operated by Klep.
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