AUSTRALIA
The Australian Jewish News

COUNSEL Assisting the Royal Commission Maria Gerace has slammed several rabbis in her submission to the Royal Commission.

Gerace said in her submissions, which were made public yesterday that Rabbi Yosef Feldman’s statement to the Royal Commission that “without qualification … it is obligatory to immediately report all allegations of sexual abuse to the police” is not a true representation of his views, that Yeshiva in Sydney was put on notice about Daniel ‘Gug’ Hayman’s abuse years before he sexually assaulted victim AVB and that alleged perpetrator AVL had informed Rabbis Pinchus Feldman and Yosef Feldman that he might leave the country, on a pre-paid ticket by Yeshiva in Sydney, within 24 hours of finding out that he was being investigated for a case of child sexual abuse.

With regards to Yeshivah in Melbourne, Gerace submitted that Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Telsner used a sermon…