A CHILD sexual abuse victim of Rabbi David Kramer has gone public for the first time, claiming his negotiations with Yeshivah Centre for compensation have hit a roadblock.
Shimon Walles, who was sexually abused by Kramer when he was a Yeshivah student in 1990, spoke to police for the first time in 2008.
In 2013, Kramer pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting Walles among others, and received a jail sentence.
“When Kramer was convicted I was more traumatised by the re-victimisation,” Walles exclusively told The AJN this week, referring to his treatment by some members of the Yeshivah community.
“At the time, the retribution was so bad that I couldn’t live in Australia.
“I was just trying to move on with my life and at the time I never thought of civil action.”
Read the full article by Joshua Levi at the Australian Jewish News.