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The Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse has held hearings into abuse within the Catholic Church, the Salvation Army and other religious groups – but today was the first involving the Jewish community, and in particular the ultra-Orthodox Yeshivah College.
Three convicted child abusers were under the spotlight of the commission including David Kramer, who pleaded guilty to molesting four young boys at the college.
A second pedophile at the same Jewish school, David Cyprys, was convicted of five counts of rape and admitted interfering with nine children.
And in Sydney’s Yeshiva centre, Daniel Hayman was handed a suspended sentence over child sexual abuse.
Manny Waks was a victim of Cyprys, and it started when he was just 11.
“I was taunted and bullied and called gay, because I had been sexually abused by a man,” he said.
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