A DISGRACED former priest who plied young boys with cigarettes and alcohol before assaulting and raping them has been jailed for a second time.
David Edwin Rapson's crimes were so evil he was kicked out of the church by Pope John Paul II in 2004 after years of lobbying by his Melbourne superiors.
Rapson rose to become vice-principal of Sunbury's notorious Salesian College Rupertswood despite a string of allegations being levelled at him in the 1980s.
It was there he committed many of his crimes during the 1970s and 1980s, telling a fellow priest that "God made us this way".
The 60-year-old former priest was today remanded in custody after a County Court jury found him guilty on all charges, eight counts of indecent assault and five counts of rape.
He has already served one prison term after being jailed in 1992 for abusing a 15-year-old student at the school, years after victims first complained to college leaders.
Rapson is one of eight Salesians who have been publicly accused of molesting students at the Rupertswood campus during four decades from the 1960s.
Ex-priest David Edwin Rapson jailed again over student rapes | Herald Sun
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