AUSTRALIA
The Age
February 13, 2015
Jane Lee
Australia’s most senior rabbi this week sent a text message calling the father of three child sexual abuse victims, including prominent victims’ advocate Manny Waks, a “lunatic” who had neglected his own children.
Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, gave evidence on the last day of the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Abuse’s Melbourne hearing.
Zephaniah Waks, Manny’s father, has told the Commission he felt forced to move to Israel with his wife after being ostracised the ultra-orthodox Jewish Chabad community for supporting Manny in publicly discussing his abuse.
Rabbi Kluwgant told the Commission that he only watched parts of Mr Waks’ testimony to the inquiry last Tuesday.
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