Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Hasidic and Haredi communities Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2013

Australia: Yeshivah College teacher David Kramer convicted of assaulting students

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

teacher at a Chabad religious day school

Organization

Yeshivah College, Melbourne

Spiritual nexus

The victims were young students at a Chabad religious day school under the defendant's teaching authority; the Royal Commission's Case Study 22 examined how the school's handling enabled his departure abroad.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2013-07-01 · guilty plea, conviction and sentence

County Court of Victoria, Australia. Former Yeshivah College teacher David Kramer pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent assault and one indecent act against four students aged 10–11, committed 1989–1992, and was sentenced to 3 years 4 months. He had left Australia after the allegations first surfaced and was separately convicted in Missouri before extradition.

Documented coercion mechanisms

teaching authority over young students at a religious school

Primary record

Sources

international newspaper court reporting sentencing report 'Australian Jewish day school teacher sentenced to prison for sex abuse', Haaretz (2013).: Reports the guilty plea and sentence.
official statutory inquiry report inquiry report Royal Commission, Case Study 22 (Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne).: The Royal Commission's findings on the institutional handling.

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