AUSTRALIA
Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Police in Sydney, Australia have arrested and charged a 49-year-old businessman, Daniel “Gug” Hayman, with charges related to child sexual abuse allegedly carried out at a camp affiliated with Chabad’s Yeshiva Centre in Bondi, The Age reported.
The alleged abuse took place in 1985 and 1986. The two alleged male victims were 14- and 16-years-old at the time of the alleged abuse, which allegedly took place while Hayman was working as a senior counselor at a Chabad camp run by the Yeshiva Centre.
Hayman, who was approximately 21- to 22-years old at the time the alleged abuse took place, was charged with two counts of gross indecency and was refused bail.
The Age reports that Hayman’s arrest and charging is “likely to put some of Australia’s most senior rabbinical figures under scrutiny over their failures to act on complaints from victims. Despite complaints, Hayman was never reported to police and left Australia to live in Los Angles Jewish community, where leaders again acted to shield him.”
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