AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A rabbi who was principal of a Melbourne Jewish college when some students were sexually abused admits mistakes were made in the handling of abuse cases.
But responsibility for this fell to another senior figure at Yeshivah College, the now deceased Rabbi Dovid Groner, says Rabbi Abraham Glick, who was principal from 1986 to 2007.
Rabbi Glick told the royal commission into child sex abuse that Rabbi Groner never told him about such cases, because he handled them in ‘strict confidence’.
‘I’m prepared to say that if he were alive today, I believe he would agree that that was a mistake. A big mistake,’ Rabbi Glick told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday.
The commission was told David Cyprys – a locksmith and martial arts instructor at the school – abused several children in the early 1980s, and that Rabbi Groner was aware of this in 1984.
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