Royal Commission investigates child abuse among GOD'S chosen people.
Clearly this demonstrate how out of toch these religious people are........

Jewish school tried to 'cure' sex offender

The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse began its second hearing in Melbourne on Monday, focusing on ultra-orthodox Jewish organisation Yeshivah.

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Yeshivah Melbourne tried to "cure" serial sex offender David Cyprys and continued to employ him more than 20 years after victims reported he had sexually abused them, a Royal Commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse began its second hearing in Melbourne on Monday, focusing on the ultra-orthodox Jewish organisation Yeshivah.
The two-week hearing at the County Court will examine Yeshivah Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi's response to child sexual abuse allegations against their former employees, convicted sex offenders David Cyprys, David Kramer and Daniel Hayman.

Manny Waks, who was a victim of David Samuel Cyprys, appeared before the Royal Commission. Photo: Penny Stephens

Cyprys was found guilty of indecent assault in 1992 and released on a good behaviour bond. In 2013, the County Court found him guilty of five charges of rape, five charges of indecent assault, attempted indecent assault, and two counts of gross indecency. He is still serving his eight-year prison sentence for these crimes.

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One of Cyprys' victims, known as AVA, said he was sexually abused between the ages of 14 and 17, when he took private kung fu lessons from Cyprys.
"There is no doubt in my mind Yeshivah College and some of its rabbis were aware of David's penchant for young boys," he told the commission.

Manny Waks arrives at the County Court, Melbourne, where he's appearing at the Royal Commission into child abuse. Manny was abused while at Yeshivah College. Photo: Penny Stephens

His mother, known as AVQ, said she first reported her son's abuse in 1986 to the-then director of Yeshivah Centre, Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner.
Rabbi Groner, who died in 2008, responded, "Oh no, I thought we cured him," she said. Rabbi Groner assured her he would "take care of it. It will be fine".
About 2002, AVQ called the rabbi again when she learned that her son had continued to be abused by Cyprys years later. He asked her if AVA was going to the police, and she responded "probably".
"What do you need me for then?" he replied.
AVA said Cyprys should not have been allowed near children at Yeshivah until 2011: "I don't care how cured they thought he was."
Manny Waks, who was also abused by Cyprys, told the commission he had confronted Rabbi Groner in the 2000s about why Cyprys continued to be employed as a security guard at Yeshivah despite abuse allegations against him from 1996.
Rabbi Groner told Mr Waks, founder and former chief executive of Jewish victims' support group Tzedek, that he was "personally dealing with it" and that Cyprys was receiving professional help.
Mr Waks said he had confirmed that Rabbi Groner knew of Cyprys' offending as early as 1984. That year, a victim and the father of another victim relayed abuse allegations to him via another rabbi.
Other victims and their family members are also expected to give evidence they were ostracised by rabbinical leaders and the Jewish community after they reported abuse.
Counsel assisting the Royal Commission, Maria Gerace, said in her opening address on Monday that witnesses would give evidence that Chabad communities - who strictly observe Orthodox Judaism - were "insular and set apart from the wider secular community".
"Witnesses are expected to give evidence that historically, there was no sex education whilst growing up and family members and members of the community did not openly discuss the issue of sex," she said.
"I anticipate witnesses will also give evidence that a person's standing in the community and community attitudes to a member can affect, positively or adversely, a member's prospect of marriage and economic opportunities."
The commission would also examine the role the religious concept mesirah, which prohibits Jewish people from handing over another Jew to a secular or non-Rabbinic authority. Mesirah developed in response to the historical persecution of Jews.
"The inquiry will examine whether the concept of mesirah has influenced the attitude of rabbinical leaders and community members in their treatment of victims of abuse who participate in the criminal process," she said.