AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
A child abuse victim has branded the Jewish Yeshivah community “rotten to the core” and has called for leaders who ignored molestation to be banished from power, a royal commission has heard.
The man, known as AVB, was 10 when, in the 1980s, he was sexually abused at Sydney’s Yeshiva Bondi centre, at the hands of now convicted child abusers Daniel Hayman and David Cyprys.
AVB, who is now a member of Melbourne’s Yeshivah community, reported the abuse to police three years ago.
Giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, AVB said Yeshivah had a “culture of enablers” and many rabbis and jewish leaders within the Chabad community continued to denigrate the victims and rally around the perpetrators.
“This whole thing is vile from beginning to end,” he said.
AVB told the inquiry rabbis who knew of abuse should be held accountable and banned from leadership positions.
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