AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Melissa Davey
@MelissaLDavey
Wednesday 11 February 2015
The management committee of an Orthodox Jewish religious centre never considered issuing a direct formal apology to child sex abuse victims under its care, or providing those victims with compensation, a royal commission has heard.
Don Wolf, who was the chairman of the Yeshivah centre in Melbourne until last year, also acknowledged that when victims asked for help because they were being victimised by the Orthodox community, management did nothing to help them.
Children were sexually abused predominantly throughout the 80s and early 90s by staff members of the Yeshivah centre, which runs schools, youth camps and synagogues, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has heard.
When questioned about what drove the inaction of management towards victims, Wolf said the management team was inexperienced.
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