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Jewish school bus driver charged
April 26, 2013, Jared Lynch, The Sydney Morning Helrald
A former bus driver for several Melbourne Jewish schools will face court on Friday over child abuse allegations from more than 20 years ago.
Police spokeswoman Leonie Johnson said Donald Cornell, who was a bus driver at the Orthodox Adass Israel School in Elsternwick and Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre, was charged with six counts of indecent assault on March 19. The offences date from the late 1980s and are alleged to have been committed against a 15-year-old girl.
School sex abuse: rabbi pleads guilty
Benjamin Preiss, The Age, 12 April 2013
David Kramer fled Australia in the early 1990s after teaching at Yeshivah College.
An American rabbi who worked at an orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne during the early 1990s has pleaded guilty to a series of sexual abuse charges.
David Kramer, 52, appeared by video link in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon from prison.
Kramer pleaded guilty to five charges of indecent assault and one of committing an indecent act with or in the presence of a child under 16. Six other charges were withdrawn.
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