Former school principal Malka Leifer is being sentenced in a Melbourne court for 18 sexual offences, including rape and indecent assault. Follow live.
Not surprisingly, there is a significant media presence outside the County Court in Melbourne ahead of the sentencing.
Elly Sapper, Dassi Erlich and Nicole Meyer stood together as they spoke of the long and emotional journey to get to this point. "It will still take us a lot longer given how long it took for us to hear those words to process the fact that we actually got to this point," she said.Police investigating school's role in Leifer's flight from AustraliaWhile Leifer's sentence is being decided today, there is one process still playing out in the years-long saga.hours after the allegations were raised at a school meeting in March 2008.
"The timing of the booking of the tickets and departure of Leifer and members of her family is extraordinary," he said.By Joseph Dunstan
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