AUSTRALIA
The Age
February 5, 2015
Jane Lee
The spiritual orthodox Jewish leader of NSW says he does not recall warning convicted sex offender Daniel Hayman to stay away from younger boys at Yeshiva Bondi.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, the former head of Yeshiva College Bondi, repeatedly denied receiving complaints about Hayman abusing younger boys at youth camps organised by Yeshiva during the 1980s, at the royal commission into child sexual abuse on Thursday.
Hayman told police before he was sentenced for indecent assault in 2011 that he remembered senior rabbi Boruch Lesches telling him to “stay away” from younger boys, and had a “vague recollection” that Rabbi Feldman had also spoken to him about this, the commission heard.
When police asked in what context the conversation with Rabbi Feldman took place, Hayman said: “A similar thing to what Rabbi Lesches spoke about, to keep away.”
“From the younger boys?” the police officer asked. “Yes, yes,” Hayman said.
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