AUSTRALIA
Jerusalem Post
Manny Waks, founder and former head of Australian sexual abuse victims’ advocacy group Tzedek, praises the Melbourne’s King David School for its handling of allegations against its teacher.
Manny Waks, the founder and former head of Australian sexual abuse victims’ advocacy group Tzedek, praised the Melbourne’s King David School for its handling of allegations that one its teachers had acted in an inappropriate manner with students.
Australian Jewry was recently shaken by revelations that leaders of the ultra-orthodox community had covered up incidents of sexual abuse in their schools. The Australian rabbinate split into two bodies when the full extent of this concealment came to light during a Royal Commission into institutional responses to sexual abuse earlier this year.
According to the Herald Sun, a “top Jewish school,” subsequently identified as the progressive King David School, contacted the police regarding what it termed “possible inappropriate conduct’ between a teacher and students. The teacher, who was subsequently suspended while the school conducted an investigation into the matter, was also alleged to have sent “innuendo” filled Facebook messages to erstwhile students.
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