Australia Deports Sex Offender Back to St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 11, 2014

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Mug shot of David Kramer from the Missouri Sex Offender Registry.

A Missouri sex offender who was extradited to Australia to face decades-old accusations that he molested students there has been deported back to the U.S. and now lives in St. Louis, his former lawyer said this week.

David Kramer, who has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Israel, had worked at the Yeshiva College school in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda. He left in 1992 because of a visa problem, and spent almost a decade in Israel before coming to the St. Louis area.

He pleaded guilty of sexual misconduct and statutory sodomy in 2008, after prosecutors said he fondled a 12-year-old boy and masturbated in front of him in University City.

In 2011, Kramer was months from being released from a seven-year prison sentence in Missouri when he was accused by Australian authorities of fondling four male students, ages 10 and 11, at the Yeshiva College school in 1989-1992.

After a legal battle in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Kramer was extradited to Australia in late 2012. He pleaded guilty in 2013 and was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, the Melbourne Herald Sun reported.

He received credit for time served in jail while awaiting resolution of the Australian case, said Matthew Chase, an attorney who had helped represent him in the deportation. Chase said Kramer served at least 2? years for the Australian crime.

The attorney said Kramer had to be deported back to Missouri to complete the last few weeks of his parole.

He said Kramer is trying to get his life back together. “He’s got to work. He’s got to put food on the table. Like anybody else.”