The 54-year-old woman is ultra-Orthodox and allegedly took refuge in Israel, but was extradited to Australia to stand trial.
The news of his extradition was a small relief for the victims who were abused by the sinister teacher. The complaints and the collection of testimonies were finally valid for her to be prosecuted after a long struggle of more than a decade.
The sexual predator was discovered in 2007 when Dassi Erlich, a young Orthodox woman from Melbourne, told the therapist about the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of the principal of Adass Israel, where she was first a high school student and then a young employee.
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Due to his testimony, it was revealed that not only Erlich, but also his two sisters, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper, were also abused by Leifer.
After six years of appeals and 12 years of residence in Israel, the country’s judiciary today extradited Malka Lefier to Australia, accused of 74 rapes and abuses of minors in a Jewish school in Melbourne.
Leifer, who pleads not guilty, has been fighting legally since 2014 to avoid extradition, in addition to pretending to have a mental illness to avoid it. She was finally handed over to Australian authorities at Ben Gurion Airport this morning, where she was put on a plane with her hands and feet handcuffed, Ynet reported.
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His overwhelm, Nick Kaufman, said he would be tried immediately, with the first hearings scheduled for the next few days.
Leifer is ultra-Orthodox and was a teacher and principal at the Melbourne Adas Israel Jewish School until 2008, when the first allegations of abuse began, prompting her to leave for Israel and leading to an Australian arrest warrant in 2012 and a petition. extradition to Israel two years later.
She was then placed under house arrest, and in 2016 a forensic psychiatrist decided she was ill and could not be tried, which stopped the extradition process.
A year later, private investigators showed that he was leading a normal life in Jerusalem, and a psychiatric group later determined that Lefeir had turned a mental illness into a disease, which set the process in motion again.
At least eight alleged victims have testified against Leifer, who has lived relatively normally for years in Jerusalem and in the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel in the West Bank.