AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Melissa Davey
@MelissaLDavey
Friday 13 March 2015
Two days after child sex abuse victims called for the resignations of senior staff from within the Orthodox Jewish Yeshivah community, four of its leaders have stood down.
For two weeks in February, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse examined the way abuse cases were handled by the Yeshivah centres in Sydney and Melbourne, which run schools, social events and religious activities.
On Wednesday, 11 abuse victims wrote an open letter to the Melbourne centre expressing dismay at what they described as a lack of accountability among senior figures since the commission hearings.
The commission heard how victims were groomed for sexual abuse by staff, then bullied and ostracised by religious leaders when they sought help.
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