Australia: Salesian priest Frank Klep sentenced to a decade for a 'campaign of abuse' at Rupertswood

Proceedings

1. 2014-01-01 · convictions in 2005 and 2014

   County Court of Victoria, Australia. Fr Frank Klep, a Salesian priest at Rupertswood, pleaded guilty in December 2005 to thirteen counts of indecent assault against ten boys — many during infirmary care — and in 2014 was convicted of fifteen further child sex offences from the 1970s–80s and sentenced to ten and a half years, the judge describing a 'campaign of abuse'. In the intervening years the order had posted him to Samoa as allegations mounted.

Documented coercion mechanisms

• pastoral and sick-bay authority over boarding students