AUSTRALIA
J-Wire
November 14, 2012
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has welcomed the Royal Commission into sexual abuse perpetrated against children.
Rabbi Yacov Glasman told J-Wire: “Given the surfacing of child sexual abuse allegations in Jewish communities around the world ranging from secular to religious, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria welcomes a nationwide Royal Commission and commends the Federal Government on its decision. The RCV reaffirms its utmost condemnation of those who perpetrate such evils against children or turn a blind eye to them and reminds the community that alleged ‘Halachic’ reasons to refrain from reporting abuse to the police or other relevant authorities are completely without foundation.”
Rabbi Chaim Ingram of the Rabbinical Council of New South Wales added: “Judaism teaches that all forms of abuse – physical, emotional and sexual – of one human being by another is heinous and wrong. This is particularly true of the abuse of a child by an adult.
Judaism also teaches that dina de-malchuta dina, that in civil matters “the law of the land is law”.
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