AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
Female school principal ‘sexually abused girl to prepare her for marriage’ at ultra-Orthodox Jewish school, court hears
By SARAH DEAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
The former principal of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school allegedly abused a 15-year-old student to ‘prepare her for marriage’.
Malka Leifer, the ‘strict’ former principal at Adass Israel School in Melbourne, was named in a negligence and injury lawsuit against the school by a former student who claims Leifer abused her and her two sisters over several years.
Leifer allegedly began grooming the student, using the girl’s physically abusive home life as a way to get close to her, Victoria’s Supreme Court heard this week.
‘She liked to hug me like a baby, and rock me. She said I should consider her like a mother who loved me, and that I was special,’ the woman told the court, the Herald Sun reports.
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