The 54-year-old woman is ultra-Orthodox and is said to have sought refuge in Israel, but has been extradited to Australia for justice.
The news of his rendition was a small canvas of relief for the victims abused by the sinister teacher. The complaints and the collection of testimonials are finally valid for prosecution after a long battle of more than a decade.
The sexual predator was discovered in 2007 when Dassi Erlich, a young Orthodox from Melbourne, told her therapist about the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of the director of the Adass Israel School, where she was first a high school student and then a young employee.
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Thanks to his testimony, it was revealed that not only Erlich but also his two sisters, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper, had also been abused by Leifer.
After six years of appeal and 12 years in Israel, the judge of the country today extradited Malka Lefier to Australia, charged with 74 cases of rape and abuse of minors at a Jewish school in Melbourne.
Leifer, who pleads not guilty, has been fighting legally since 2014 to avoid his extradition, feigning mental illness to prevent it. She was eventually handed over to Australian authorities at Ben Gurion airport this morning, where she was put on the plane with handcuffs on her hands and feet, Ynet reported.
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His overwhelmed Nick Kaufman indicated he will face immediate trial, with the first hearings scheduled for the next few days.
Ultra-Orthodox, Leifer was a teacher and principal of the Melbourne Jewish school Adas Israel until 2008 when the first allegations of abuse surfaced prompting her to leave for Israel, leading to an Australian arrest warrant in 2012 and a petition extradition to Israel two years later.
She was then placed under house arrest and in 2016 a forensic psychiatrist ruled that she was ill and could not face trial, halting the extradition process.
A year later, private investigators showed that he was living a normal life in Jerusalem, and a subsequent psychiatric panel determined that Lefeir had feigned a mental illness, restarting the process.
At least eight alleged victims testified against Leifer, who has lived relatively normally in Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel in the West Bank for years.