AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A prominent Melbourne rabbi insists the idea that reporting sexual abuse to police goes against Jewish religious principles is an abomination.
He brushed off a sex abuse report 28 years ago as a hoax, and profoundly regrets it.
Rabbi Moshe Gutnick is now an advocate for child sex abuse victims and says those who come forward should be considered heroes.
He told the sex abuse royal commission on Wednesday he felt guilty for taking no action after a boy called him in 1987 to report a man, Daniel Hayman, who was later convicted of abusing another boy.
The rabbi told the commission the victim, with the help of another boy, called him about abuse by Hayman.
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