The 54-year-old woman is ultra-Orthodox and is said to have taken refuge in Israel, but has been extradited to Australia to face justice.
The news of his extradition has been a small canvas of relief for the victims who were abused by the sinister teacher. The allegations and gathering of witnesses have finally led to her being tried after a long struggle of more than a decade.
The sexual predator was discovered in 2007 when Dassi Erlich, a young Melbourne Orthodox, told her therapist about the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of principal of Adass Israel School, where she was first a student of Melbourne. secondary and then young employee.
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Thanks to his testimony it was revealed that it was learned that not only Erlich but also his two sisters, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper, had also been abused by Leifer.
After six years of appeals and twelve residing in Israel, the country’s Justice Court today extradited Malka Lefier to Australia on charges of 74 counts of rape and child abuse at a Jewish school in Melbourne.
Leifer, who pleads not guilty, has been fighting legally since 2014 to prevent his extradition, as well as feigning a mental illness to prevent it. Finally, this morning she was handed over to Australian authorities at Ben Gurion Airport, where she was put on a plane with her hands and feet handcuffed, digital Ynet reported.
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Her overwhelmed, Nick Kaufman, has indicated that she will be put on trial immediately, with the first hearings scheduled for the next few days.
Leifer is ultra-Orthodox and was a teacher and principal at the Adas Israel Jewish School in Melbourne until 2008, when the first allegations of abuse began, which led to her going to Israel and resulted in an arrest warrant. Australian in 2012, and an extradition request to Israel two years later.
She was then placed under house arrest and in 2016 a forensic psychiatrist ruled she was ill and unable to stand trial, which halted the extradition process.
A year later, private investigators showed that he was living a normal life in Jerusalem and another subsequent psychiatric panel determined that Lefeir had simulated mental illness, which set the process in motion again.
At least eight alleged victims have testified against Leifer, who has lived with relative normalcy for years in Jerusalem and Emmanuel’s Jewish settlement in the West Bank.