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Guardian publishes Rabbi Feldman’s statement in relation to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Tuesday 14 July 2015

In view of the reporting of Rabbi Yosef Feldman’s evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Guardian is publishing his position as set out in his written statement of 6 February 2015, read out by him at the commission hearing on 9 February 2015.

I have followed the evidence of the victims of sexual abuse at this hearing and I have read their statements. I have been affected by that evidence. I agree wholeheartedly with the statement my father gave yesterday.

I feel deeply sorry for the suffering they have experienced from the sexual abuse that they have suffered as children. I am also deeply sorry for the pain that they have experienced as a result of the…