AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Sydney’s Jewish community taking action to detect child sex abuse in wake of Royal Commission findings
ROBBIE PATTERSON WENTWORTH COURIER JUNE 18, 2015
TWENTY prominent rabbis from across Sydney attended a seminar on child sex abuse at Jewish House in Bondi on Monday.
Rabbi Mendel Kastel, chief executive officer of Jewish House, said it was a direct result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
At the commission, disgraced Rabbi Yosef Feldman came under fire for his comments regarding child sex abuse “hype” and the need for paedophiles to receive greater leniency.
The former director of the Yeshiva Centre at Bondi also told the commission that he did not know it was illegal for a man to touch a child’s genitals when he had to deal with an abuse complaint in 2002.
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