Rabbi Yosef Feldman had told a commission looking into the abuse from the 1980s and ’90s that pedophiles who had not committed sex crimes for two decades should be treated with leniency.
The Royal Commission spent two weeks probing how rabbis and senior officials responded to the child sex abuse scandal at Chabad institutions in Melbourne and Sydney.
The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is focusing on the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and Sydney for two weeks.
