AUSTRALIA
Failed Messiah
Melbourne Jewry’s roof body, the JCCV, has submitted a self-serving report to a Victorian Parliamentary committee regarding the steps it claims to have taken to combat child sexual abuse and to properly handle allegations of these crimes when they do occur. But a submission made by Jewish alleged victims of these crimes at Chabad’s Yeshivah Centre shows the depth of the child sexual abuse problem in that segment of the Jewish community – including reporting coverups of child rape and sexual abuse carried out by Chabad’s leaders. It also helps to expose the JCCV’s lack of action and its unethical handling of its most senior staff member, now just resigned, who is sleeping with a convicted pedophile. Here are both reports.
Note that many of JCCV’s activities detailed in their submission do not appear to have gone much further than issuing the press releases. Also note that from what I’ve heard over the years from many of the contacts I have in Melbourne, including alleged victims in the Chabad child sex abuse scandal and people close to victims in the Adass scandal from a few years ago, the JCCV did not really follow through on its promises to help victims through its constituent organizations.
The JCCV also had, until last month, an executive director who was sleeping with David Cyprys.
Cyprys is accused of raping and molesting at least 12 children in Chabad’s Yeshivah Centre and/or in related programs. But he also pleaded guilty before this having inappropriate sexual contact with a child. He was allowed to pay a fine and have a conditional release – orchestrated, I’m told, by senior members of the Chabad community.
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