Melbourne's The Age newspaper has reported that a second former student has commenced proceedings against the ultra-orthodox Adass Yisroel School following this week's judgement awarding over $1 million to a former student who allegedly suffered sexual abuse.
As the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse continues its investigation we should be aware that the incidents it is investigating represent only a very small percentage of child sexual abuse incidents in Australia.
The Principal of Melbourne's Yeshivah - Beth Rivkah College has responded to claims that a known perpetrator of child sexual abuse is in the College's employment.
Tzedek, the advocacy group focusing on sexual abuse on children has called for checks to be made on communal workers and shlichim within the Jewish community.
ABC's Rachael Kohn has interviewed Manny Waks...the oldest member of seventeen children who was sexually abused as a child attending Yeshiva in Melbourne....
The father of child sex abuse victim Manny Waks is taking two senior officials at the Yeshivah Centre to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
