AUSTRALIA
The Australian
RACHEL BAXENDALE From: The Australian July 17, 2013
A JEWISH Orthodox school in Melbourne failed to report a teacher’s molestation of four boys in the early 1990s to police, enabling the man to leave Australia and reoffend overseas, the Victorian County Court has heard.
David Kramer, 52, pleaded guilty to five charges of indecent assault and one of indecent acts with a child in relation to incidents which occurred at Yeshivah College in St Kilda East.
The American, whose elderly parents, ex-wife and 11 adolescent and adult children live in Israel, admitted to groping the four boys through their clothing between 1990 and 1992.
Prosecutor Brett Sonnet told a plea hearing today (Wednesday) that Yeshivah College had initially declined to sack Kramer, out of concern for his welfare, until angry parents staged a protest outside his house, across the road from the school.
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