AUSTRALIA
The Age
July 17, 2013
Adam Cooper
Reporter for The Age
A lawyer representing a teacher who has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing students more than 20 years ago has told a court that Melbourne’s Yeshivah College covered up the scandal rather than contact police.
And even after David Kramer admitted to abusing one victim, the school’s then principal told the victim’s father that the teacher would not be suspended because of concerns for his wellbeing, the County Court was told.
Kramer, a primary school teacher at Yeshivah College between 1989 and 1992 and known to his pupils as “Rabbi Kramer” although not ordained, has pleaded guilty to five charges of sexually abusing four 10-year-old boys in 1990 and 1991, and one charge of committing an indecent act with a child.
Kramer, 52, was extradited last year from the US, where he served 4 years in jail for sodomising a 12-year-old boy in a St Louis synagogue.
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