AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
Female Jewish principal who fled to Israel after being accused of child sex abuse claims she is ‘psychotic and stressed’ as she fights extradition to Melbourne
By Emily Crane and Sarah Dean for Daily Mail Australia
A former principal of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne who was accused of molesting students has claimed through her lawyer she is psychotic as she fights her extradition from Israel.
Malka Leifer fled to Israel after she was accused of sexually abusing students at Adass Israel School in Melbourne when she was principal in 2008.
Victoria Police are working to force Ms Leifer to be extradited back to Australia where she could face dozens of criminal charges, the ABC reports.
But Ms Leifer, who was placed under house arrest after she was arrested in Israel in August, now claims she is psychotic and unfit to face court.
She was expected to appear at Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday but didn’t attend because of ill health, according to lawyers.
Her lawyer Yehuda Fried successfully argued for her case to be delayed claiming she is suffering from ‘psychosis and stress’.
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