AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Melissa Davey
@MelissaLDavey
Thursday 12 February 2015
The former principal of an Orthodox Jewish school said he does not remember removing the scholarship of a student who reported to him that he had been sexually abused.
Rabbi Abraham Glick said he could not even remember the interstate student, identified only to the public as AVR, as having ever attended the school within the Yeshivah religious centre in Melbourne.
Glick appeared before the royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse on Thursday after AVR gave evidence on Monday.
AVR told the commission that in 1990 he was repeatedly raped by a security guard at the Yeshivah centre and college in Melbourne, David Cyprys, who in 2013 was convicted and jailed for his crimes.
But when he and his mother reported the abuse to Glick, AVR said his scholarship was stripped from him and he was sent home.
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