AUSTRALIA
IOL
February 11 2015
REUTERS
Sydney –
The director of an ultra-orthodox yeshiva in Sydney resigned on Wednesday after his comments on paedophiles and apparent tolerance of historical child sex abuse caused an outcry.
Rabbi Yosef Feldman last week said not all sex abuse cases warranted police intervention and that courts could offer leniency to paedophiles who now no longer offend, in comments to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
He apologised on Wednesday to the Jewish community and the wider Australian community and said he would step down, The Australian Jewish News reported.
His testimony came as the national inquiry honed in on instances of sexual assault on children at yeshiva-run schools and other Jewish institutes in Australia.
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