AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Jean Edwards
One of Australia’s Orthodox Jewish leaders has told the royal commission into child sexual abuse he did not believe he had an obligation to stop an accused paedophile leaving the country.
The commission heard the student at Sydney’s Yeshivah Centre left Australia less than 48 hours after a complaint was made against him in 2002.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman said he did not tell authorities he thought the accused might go to America.
“I did not believe that I have that obligation,” Rabbi Feldman said.
“I did not act, I did not notify the police that he said that he may be going.
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