An Israeli court has granted bail to Malka Leifer, a former Melbourne headteacher wanted on 74 charges of child sexual abuse in Australia. Dassi Erlich, an Australian who has accused Leifer of abusing her, said the news had left her reeling and was a “massive betrayal of justice”. His client left Israel in 2000 to run an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne but returned in 2008 after students raised allegations. The Jewish school that hired the principal was ordered in 2015 to pay more than $1.1m in compensatory damages. Israeli media have since reported he allegedly pressured doctors to falsify psychiatric evaluations that would deem Leifer unfit to face trial.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2019 09:22 UTC