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The Age
Rabbi Abraham Glick resigns from Yeshivah College after fronting royal commission on child abuse
February 12, 2015
Jane Lee
After fronting the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Abuse on Thursday, Rabbi Abraham Glick, the former principal of Melbourne’s Yeshivah College over the period of David Cyprys’ and David Kramer’s sexual abuse of students, has resigned his current role of teacher, writes Jane Lee.
The former principal of Yeshivah College from the period that sex offenders David Cyprys and David Kramer were abusing students has resigned as a teacher at the school.
Rabbi Abraham Glick was the principal of Melbourne’s Yeshivah College between 1986 and 2007.
Asked at the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Abuse on Thursday whether he thought resigning from any remaining positions at the Yeshivah Centre and Yeshivah College “would assist the victims to move on from the wrongs of the past”, he announced that, after much “soul searching”, he had decided to resign as a teacher.
“I resigned because I felt that [will help meet the] needs of the victims that would want me to resign.
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