AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Shannon Deery, Herald Sun
January 27, 2017
PROSECUTORS have vowed to continue fighting for the return of a fugitive principal wanted to face dozens of child sex offences here.
Malka Leifer fled to Israel and has been on the run from Victorian authorities since 2008 after allegations of rampant sexual abuse were levelled at her while principal of Elsternwick’s Adass Israel School.
Police have been told the mother of eight molested up to 10 girls, and they say she will be charged with more than 70 child sex offences if she returns to Melbourne.
But extradition proceedings were last year halted after an Israeli judge placed Mrs Leifer on a psychiatric treatment regimen that could last 10 years.
A hearing of the psychiatric panel regarding Mrs Leifer’s case this week recommended the court order for her treatment be extended another six months because she was going through a psychotic phase.
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