AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
March 3, 2013
Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie
One of Australia’s most senior rabbis has revealed he did not inform police after a young boy contacted him to detail allegations of sexual abuse.
Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, who heads the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, said he received an anonymous phone call from a boy more than 20 years ago about the alleged abuse at Sydney’s Yeshiva.
Rabbi Gutnick, who was based in Strathfield in Sydney’s west at the time, said he alerted senior members of the Yeshiva about the boy’s allegations, but did not contact police.
”Knowing what I know now, I would have probably called the police,” he said.
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