AUSTRALIA
The Age
September 17, 2015
Patrick Hatch
Reporter for The Age
A second former Adass Israel Girls School student is suing over sexual abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of the school’s fugitive principal.
On Wednesday the school was ordered in Melbourne’s Supreme Court to pay over a million dollars in compensation to a woman for abuse she suffered at the school.
The court heard the woman, now 28, was regularly abused by former principal Malka Leifer between 2003 and 2006 at the school in Elsternwick, at the principal’s home and on school camps.
Justice Jack Rush found the abuse had a profound effect of the on the woman, included flashbacks, nightmares and persistent depression.
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