AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
A former principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne has reluctantly admitted that covering up abuse at the Yeshivah centre was a “big mistake”, but he denies knowing about it.
Former teacher and principal Rabbi Abraham Glick worked closely with the head rabbi of the Yeshivah Community Rabbi Dovid Groner in the 1980s.
At the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Rabbi Glick was read a list of extensive offending by convicted paedophile David Cyrprys between 1983 to 1992.
Counsel assisting the commission, Maria Gerace challenged Rabbi Glick’s statement that children did not tell their parents what Cyrprys was doing.
Ms Gerace said a parent of a victim told Rabbi Groner of the abuse in 1984 and Cyrprys went on to abuse three other children, before another parent reported abuse in 1986.
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