AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
The father of three boys sexually abused at the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne renounced the ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement after his family was persecuted for going public about the abuse, the child sexual abuse royal commission has been told.
The hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse heard that two of Zephaniah Waks’ sons were assaulted by convicted child abuser David Kramer, and the other son, Manny Waks, was assaulted by serial child abuser David Cyprys.
The inquiry heard when Manny Waks told his father he had been abused by David Cyprys, he went straight to police.
“It was worse than the first case. It was very bad I thought I had failed him,” Zephaniah Waks said.
He said when Manny went public about the abuse, it “sealed their fate”.
Mr Waks was verbally attacked in the street by prominent members within the Chabad community.
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