AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Senior rabbi Zvi Telsner on committee that helped accused sex predator flee Australia, court told
A SENIOR rabbi accused of covering up sex crimes at Yeshivah College formed part of a committee that helped accused sex predator Malka Leifer flee Australia, a court has heard.
Mrs Leifer fled Australia just days after the Adass Israel School committee of management was told of allegations she abused at least three sisters and a string of other girls.
Yeshivah Centre chief rabbi Zvi Telsner was on Monday named as a member of a panel that decided to terminate the former Adass Israel School principal’s employment and help her flee Australia in 2008.
It comes as Mrs Leifer was on Monday night expected to fight an application for her extradition from Israel to face criminal charges here.
But the federal Attorney-General’s media department thwarted attempts to cover the case by refusing to tell media when or where it would be heard.
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