Melbourne, Australia – A second case has just emerged of a teacher at a Jewish school fleeing Australia after allegations of inappropriate behaviour with students.
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David Kramer – a former teacher at Yeshiva College in Caulfield – was jailed in July for seven years in St Louis, Missouri, in the United States, after pleading guilty to two counts of child molestation.
Allegations were made in the 1990s that Kramer, now 47, had abused boys while teaching at Yeshiva.
He is understood to have been dismissed by the school and is claimed to have been asked to leave the country. The alleged incidents were not reported to the police.
Vicki Polin, of the US-based International Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, said she had been contacted by several former pupils and parents of the school.
“I have been told that Kramer abused over 30 boys in his time at Yeshiva,” Ms Polin said.
She said when parents complained to the school, Yeshiva Centre head, Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner – who died in July – told Kramer to leave.
“He paid for him to leave – he gave him a ticket,” Ms Polin said.
Yeshiva College general manager Nechama Bendet confirmed the school employed Kramer in June 1989, but could not find records of when he left.
“We have robust policies in place to deal with these allegations,” she said. “We take it very seriously.”
In March, Malka Leifer, principal of Adass Israel Girls School in Elsternwick, fled Australia after being sacked over allegations of improper behaviour with girls in her care.
And to think that there are still people out there who worry more about the “alleged” predator and “lashon harah, what if its enemies out to get him” ect. rather than protect the victims. who knows if there would even be a second case now if proper action was taken then.
To be fair, the early 90’s was a time that everyone covored these things up. It’s even a miracle they threw him out. Maybe there were some “meshuga” parents who dared care about their kids who told the school to get rid of him or else………..
you can read much more about this case on The Awareness Center’s site
http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/kramer_david.html
According to The Awareness Center site Kramer might have victims in New York and Israel too. This sounds like a serial sexual predator. I doubt he could go almost 20 years without creating more victims.
Where is this creep now? Teaching, probably. And molesting as well. They don’t stop. If anyone knows where he is, they have an achrayos to let people know. It’s not Loshen Hora (that makes me sick, it’s not Loshen Hora to gossip how much another yenta spends in Saks) it’s protecting innocent children.
#4 – you are redundant – “teaching AND molesting”? They ( how horrible it has come to this) are part and parcel of the same thing
the most crazy part of this whole epidemic is that i now look suspiciously at every one of my sons’ rebbes and am not totally at ease when i send them to yeshiva, unfortunately.