Former principal Malka Leifer has been jailed after using her power and authority within Melbourne’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community to prey on school girls.
Once a respected community leader, the disgraced 56-year-old appeared remotely before the Victorian County Court on Thursday morning where she was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.
The jury found Leifer sexually abused two sisters between 2004 and 2007. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Paul Tyquin She was acquitted on 11 charges, including five allegations of abuse perpetrated against Ms Erlich and Ms Sapper’s older sister Nicole Meyer. “They were completely and utterly ignorant of sexual matters and had no ability to understand or recognise sexual acts... that made them a target.”
The sisters first filed police complaints in 2011, unknowingly sparking a decade-long legal battle fought through the court systems of two countries. Leifer was rearrested in 2018 and the extradition process was restarted. Picture: Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP. At an earlier pre-sentence hearing, Leifer’s barrister, Ian Hill KC, said his client was a “shadow of her former self”.
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