AUSTRALIA
J-Wire
February 12, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Day 8 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing being held in Melbourne saw Nechama Bendet complete her evidence and former Chair Don Wolf give his.
General Manager of the the complex which makes up the Chabad Institutions of Australia, Yeshiva-Beth Rivka Colleges and Chabad Properties Inc Nechama Bendet told the Commission that advice was sought from a QC as to whether victims could be approached.
A key issue raised in the Commission was a meeting held by the Board of Management with the The Executive Council of Australian Jewry on the 4th of December, 2012 following the rejection of an offer to meet by The Jewish Community Council of Victoria. It was made clear that the Yeshiva was not affiliated with the ECAJ. The Commission heard that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss how to “deal with” or “respond to” the press and the allegations of child sexual abuse that was surfacing and had surfaced in the past”.
Bendet said it was a general meeting to see what the Yeshiva College was doing in regard to child sexual abuse matters. She said that “they wanted to know what processes and procedures we had in place”. Bendet agreed that she was aware that the ECAJ had “done a lot of work in the are of child sexual abuse”.
Don Wolf, former Chair of the committee of Management (COM) Yeshiva Centre, Melbourne gave his evidence today.
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