AUSTRALA
The Guardian
Melissa Davey
@MelissaLDavey
Monday 9 February 2015
A child sex abuse victim who was repeatedly raped by a staff member of an Orthodox Jewish school said he was stripped of his scholarship when he told the principal what happened.
The victim, identified only as AVR, said a security guard at the Yeshivah centre and college in Melbourne, David Cyprys, raped him multiple times.
Cyprys was convicted of those offences in 2013, and is in jail.
AVR told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse that he had been living in Queensland when his mother fell ill with leukaemia, and in 1990 he was sent to school at the Yeshiva college in Melbourne.
It was there that Cyprys began abusing him.
“I did not know much about sexual matters,” AVR said, adding that he had no father and that Cyprys was the only father figure he knew.
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