Author: ABC News (Australia)

Former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer has been sentenced to 15 years’ prison for sexually abusing two students in her care. Leifer was today sentenced in the Victoria County Court for 18 sexual offences, dating back two decades to her time in charge of the Adass Israel School in Melbourne. Three sisters — Nicole Meyer, Elly Sapper and Dassi Erlich — came forward to accuse Leifer of abuse. The sisters claimed the 56-year-old isolated and sexually abused them on campus, at school camps and in her home. Judge Mark Gamble set a non-parole period of eleven-and-a-half years at the conclusion…

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