We have been in meeting after meeting,” Sapper said.
The sisters knew they couldn't tell anyone about what happened at home.
Very, very, significant memories," Elly, 29, says.The sisters refuse to expand on what happened inside the dark cupboard under the stairs.
Dassi asks her sisters to go to the cupboard under the stairs.
Dorothy Lawrence (4 October 1896 – 4 October 1964) was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier in order to report from the front line during World War I. An Israeli law permits a halt in extradition proceedings when a defendant is deemed unfit to stand trial.The sisters say they don’t believe that the mental-illness defense is genuine.“She is definitely playing the system,” said Erlich, a 30-year-old nurse in Melbourne who was the second of the three sisters to file charges against Leifer, after Sapper.
There was no thinking about what's happening right now. And that was the last time I ever saw her. "What was there to say?
They learned nothing about their own bodies or sex.But they say the kind attention they received from their charismatic headmistress at their all-girls ultra-Orthodox school “We didn’t know what our bodies even were, we didn’t have biology lessons,” said Elly Sapper, 28, the youngest of the three sisters who have accused the headmistress, Malka Leifer. Erlich says.However buoyed she is by this activity, the spectre of Leifer inevitably looms. She proclaimed love, she gave us love and attention which started off with taking us out of class and giving us special attention and special duties,” Sapper said.The sisters compare the pattern of abuse they say they suffered and Leifer’s high status at their Adass Israel School to the pedophile priest scandals in the Catholic Church.The three sisters spent two weeks in Israel lobbying for Leifer’s extradition back to Australia, where she faces 74 counts of indecent assault and rape.Leifer, an Israeli citizen, fled to Israel in 2008 hours after accusations surfaced that she had abused between eight and 14 students.
Leifer is Sapper and Meyer have just started publicly identifying themselves as Leifer's victims, after Erlich paved the way in March.
“Growing up in the [ultra-Orthodox] Adass community, which is strongly anti-Zionist, I had no idea of the extent to which the wider Jewish community was in a completely different place.”Erlich said some advised her to join forces with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, as such activists would be able to amplify her message regarding ongoing injustice taking place in Israel.“But that wasn’t what the campaign was about,” Erlich said, explaining her decision to resist such advice. I'm not a victim, I've changed my life and I've worked really hard to get here.
"My future at the moment depends on [Leifer] coming back.
Photo: Joe Armao Erlich was the fourth of seven siblings (five girls and two boys) who grew up in the highly insular Adass community in Melbourne, which numbers up to 200 ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews. (J Street via JTA)Victims rights advocate Manny Waks (right) holds up a phone from which Malka Leifer’s alleged victims Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elie Sapper speak to reporters at the Jerusalem District Court on May 26, 2020.
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The sisters meet members of the Knesset during their trip to Israel. However, because details coming out of Israel were so scarce, “the address of blame was never clear. "Ms Leifer's rule went unquestioned and pulling children out of their classes to be with them, allegedly behind a locked door, would not have raised eyebrows.
Later, when Sapper had endured similar alleged abuse, she approached Leifer and threatened to go public with her accusations.As Sapper put it, “‘I’m going to tell everyone what you’re doing,’ I told her at a wedding.