AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Shannon Deery, Herald Sun
July 3, 2017
A CONTROVERSIAL rabbi caught intimidating and vilifying victims of child sexual abuse will now head a Melbourne school accused of covering up the sex crimes of a fugitive principal.
In a move that has devastated victims of sexual abuse, Meir Shlomo Kluwgant has been appointed as principal of the Adass Israel School in Elsternwick.
In 2008 the school’s committee helped principal Malka Leifer flee Melbourne after she was publicly accused of sexually assaulting students.
Kluwgant was forced to resign as Australia’s top rabbi amid a humiliating scandal in the wake of the child abuse royal commission’s probe into the notorious Yeshivah College in 2015.
He was also stripped of or forced to resign from positions with Jewish Care Victoria, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria, Victoria Police and the Victoria Police Multi-Faith Council.
Critics of Kluwgant’s appointment say it is evidence that Adass is not serious about tackling the scourge of abuse.
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