AUSTRALIA
Failed Messiah
Preliminary Royal Commission Findings Savage Chabad Child Sex Abuse, Coverups, Shunning And Harassment Of Victims, Rabbis’ Lies
The Counsel Assisting’s submission of findings to Australia’s Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse at Chabad institutions in Australia has just been released.
The Counsel Assisting’s findings are very bad for Chabad, and in her submission Chabad rabbis in Melbourne and Sydney come out looking awful – because they were awful. They repeatedly protected child rapists and other pedophiles and harassed victims and when they were caught, they lied to cover it up, as this brief excerpt on Chabad’s yeshiva in Sydney, Australia and on its former head, Rabbi Yosef “Yossi” Feldman shows (This excerpt begins on page 120 of the submission, which is posted in full as a PDF file at bottom):
Available findings on Yeshiva Bondi’s response to the conviction and sentencing of Daniel Hayman
F18 On 1 July 2014, just 19 days after the sentencing of Daniel Hayman for an offence of child sexual abuse perpetrated in connection with the activities of Yeshiva Bondi, leaders of Yeshiva Bondi held a function to celebrate the life and work of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and listed Daniel Hayman as a sponsor of the event and thanked him for his patronage. In so doing, Yeshiva Bondi demonstrated an insensitivity to and a disregard for AVB’s experience as a survivor of child sexual abuse perpetrated by Hayman at a camp run by Yeshiva Bondi.
F19 After Daniel Hayman’s conviction, leaders of the Yeshiva Centre did not reach out to AVB as a survivor of abuse perpetrated by Daniel Hayman.
F20 As late as July 2014, Rabbi Yosef Feldman was of the opinion that rabbinical organisations should not encourage people to report all allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities.
F21 As late as July 2014, Rabbi Yosef Feldman did not accept there was a halachic obligation for any allegation of child sexual abuse, whenever committed, to be reported to the authorities.
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