Jewish volunteer Daniel Robert Hayman avoids jail after being found guilty of sex assault

By Emma Partridge
Sydney Morning Herald
June 10, 2014

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A Jewish volunteer found guilty of indecently assaulting a teenage boy at a Yeshiva camp was handed a 19-month suspended jail sentence in a Sydney court on Tuesday.

Daniel Robert Hayman did not stop reading from the Book of Pslams as he was given the sentence for touching and holding a 14-year-old boy's penis during a camp at Stanwell Tops in the 1980s.

Magistrate David Williams said he would not have hesitated in sending Hayman to jail had the offences been committed recently but said he was bound by the laws at the time the offence was committed.

Hayman, a dual Australian-American citizen who lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to indecent assault of a child under 16 and under his authority at a hearing in May.

Magistrate Williams said the offender had been a chaperone at the camp when he drove his victim to an isolated spot to "collect firewood".

He said the sexual abuse of a child was nothing short of a catastrophe but noted that the strict religious upbringing of the offender may have led to distortions in his mind about what was appropriate behaviour.