AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A senior Australian rabbi doesn’t think any of his peers these days would fail to tell police about reports of child sex abuse.
Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick has told a royal commission into child sexual abuse he never felt there was a religious, or Jewish community, barrier to reporting sex abuse cases to authorities.
His fellow rabbis today would agree with this view, but this was not always the case, he said.
‘I cannot think of a rabbi, that I know of, that would not agree with this policy of reporting any such things to police and acting correctly and properly with the victims of abuse,’ Rabbi Gutnick told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday.
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