Detectives who investigated people connected to the Elsternwick school at the centre of Malka Leifer’s sexual offending concluded there was insufficient evidence to proceed with charges.
that they had looked at a number of people connected to the Adass Israel School in Elsternwick, but that the probe ended in 2018 because there was “insufficient evidence to proceed with any charges at this time”.Advocates are angry about the closure of the probe, saying the lack of accountability is hurtful and infuriating, given the strong evidence already heard in court of the school board’s role in helping Leifer escape.
On Monday, Leifer, a mother of eight, was found guilty of 18 charges including rape and indecent assault against sisters – Elly Sapper and Dassi Erlich – former pupils of Adass Israel School, after a six-week trial by jury in the County Court. She was cleared of all charges relating to a third sister, Nicole Meyer.
Leifer and members of her family escaped on the night of March 5, 2008, following a meeting involving senior members of the Adass community convened to discuss allegations that Leifer had sexually assaulted the sisters, according to Supreme Court documents from Erlich’s civil case against Leifer and the school, heard in 2015.
The Adass community is a small, ultra-Orthodox group of families based in Elsternwick and Ripponlea, who have little contact with the wider Jewish and other communities. Their lives are governed by strict adherence to Jewish law.Supreme Court Judge Jack Rush said in 2015 the school had not explained the urgency of Leifer’s departure in any satisfactory way.
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