AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
September 15, 2015
Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
AN ultra-orthodox Jewish school has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to a former student who was sexually abused by a runaway principal.
The windfall is believed to be the single biggest payout to a Victorian victim of child sexual abuse in a landmark case that could open the floodgates for waves of similar litigation.
And in a damning Supreme Court judgment handed down today, the school has been slammed for actively trying to cover up the abuse.
The former Adass Israel School student sued the college over claims she was routinely molested by former principal Malka Leifer.
The woman said she had been abused in Ms Leifer’s office, at her home and on school camps, and she believed that other teachers had known about the abuse.
“She would tell me that she loved me and that she really cared for me. She would tell me it was her way of telling me she loved me,” she said.
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