AUSTRALIA
J-Wire
A woman alleged to have been sexually abused by the principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne has been awarded $1 million in damages.
Justice Rush said in Melbourne’s Supreme Court that the actions taken by the Adass Israel School in helping principal Malka Leifer flee Australia in 2008 were “deplorable and disgraceful.” The allegations of her behaviour were raised shortly after she left Australia.
The school was also criticised for failing to contact police.
Leifer has been arrested in Israel where she is facing extradition to Australia to face 74 charges of sexual assault.
The woman who sued the school is one of three sisters who were allegedly abused with the offences starting in 2002 when she was 15.
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