The former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia was found guilty of sexually abusing two students, ending a 9-year legal battle that strained relations between the Australian and Israeli governments.
— The former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia was found guilty Monday of sexually abusing two students, ending a nine-year legal battle that strained relations between the Australian and Israeli governments while antagonizing Australia's Jewish community. Malka Leifer, 56, a Tel Aviv-born mother of eight, was convicted on 18 counts, including rape, and acquitted of nine other charges, including five that related to the eldest student, Nicole Meyer.
Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer is brought into a courtroom in Jerusalem in a February 27, 2018 file photo.The Associated Press does not usually identify victims and alleged victims of sexual abuse, but the sisters have chosen to identify themselves in the media. The sisters had an isolated upbringing in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and received no sexual education, the court heard. They were around 12, 14 and 16 when Leifer arrived at the school from Israel in 2001.Lewis said the sisters had provided explicit evidence that they did not understand the sexual nature of what Leifer did to them.
The sisters gave evidence over two weeks behind closed doors, with the public and media excluded according to rules governing sexual assault trials in Victoria.Erlich first spoke to social worker Chana Rabinowitz in early 2008 in Israel. Rabinowitz said she asked the sister who hurt her and the young woman replied,"It was Mrs. Leifer."
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