AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By court reporter Peta Carlyon
Sun 1 Feb 2015
The response of the Australian Jewish community to child sexual abuse will come under the spotlight as a royal commission reconvenes in Melbourne on Monday.
Several paedophiles who taught at the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne have been prosecuted, but critics say the Orthodox community has covered up persistent abuse for decades.
The organisation’s Sydney chapter, in the eastern suburb of Bondi, will also be examined by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Abuse victim Manny Waks dreamt of a royal commission years ago.
He was abused as a child at the Yeshivah College by David Cyprus, who is now in prison, and famously blew the whistle on child abuse within the Yeshivah organisation.
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