AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A senior Australian rabbi told a suspected child sex offender he wouldn’t hold him back if he tried to leave the country.
The head of the Chabad Jewish community in NSW, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, says he didn’t think it his responsibility to notify police that the man intended leaving Australia or that he did so within 48 hours of a complaint being made.
The rabbi gave evidence on Thursday to the royal commission investigating responses by institutions, in this case Yeshiva Bondi in Sydney, to reports of child sexual abuse.
Rabbi Feldman says he met with the suspect, known as AVL, the day after an abuse complaint over an incident at a synagogue camp in 2002.
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