AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Simon Lauder
An advocate for victims of sexual abuse at a Melbourne Jewish school has expressed outrage at news the global headquarters of the orthodox movement is seeking to intervene in the school’s response to the royal commission into child sexual abuse.
The New York office of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has written to the trustees of the Melbourne Yeshivah Centre warning that it will not accept any change to the hierarchical authority under which the centre was established.
The Yeshivah Centre has defended its review process, saying it is an open one.
Manny Waks was sexually abused at Melbourne’s ultra-orthodox Yeshivah College over several years in the 1980s and ’90s.
He has criticised the Chabad headquarters for its lack of response to the sexual abuse revelations.
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