AUSTRALIA
Tzedek
17 September 2013
Tzedek, Australia’s only dedicated organisation advocating for Jewish victims and survivors of child sexual abuse, is delighted with today’s development in relation to former Melbourne Yeshivah Centre employee David Cyprys.
Going into the trial, which commenced on 12 August 2013, Mr Cyprys faced 40 charges of child sexual abuse related offences. There were 12 complainants in this case. Mr Cyprys entered not guilty pleas in relation to the first complainant – he was found guilty unanimously for all five rape charges. He subsequently accepted a plea deal. Mr Cyprys will be sentenced for a total of 17 charges – some of these are representative charges (multiple incidents of similar conduct). The charges relate to nine out of the 12 victims (three complainants agreed for their charges to be withdrawn as part of the plea deal). Mr Cyprys will face a pre-sentence hearing on Friday 8 November.
Tzedek Founder & CEO Manny Waks stated:
“This is yet another important milestone in the context of the ongoing child sexual abuse scandal currently plaguing our community. It is a most welcome development – one that hopefully sends out a strong message that perpetrators of such crimes will be held to full account, irrespective of when the abuse occurred.
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