Former Jewish school principal Malka Leifer is “lonely, isolated and broken” inside prison following her conviction for sexually abusing two students.
Leifer, 56, returned before the County Court of Victoria on Tuesday for a pre-sentence hearing after a jury found her guilty on 18 sexual abuse charges in April.
Shortly after midday, her barrister, Ian Hill KC, told the court his client had fallen from being a respected educator and community leader to a “shadow of her former self”.
The former religious teacher and principal of Adass Israel School in Melbourne was convicted of sexually abusing two women while they were students and j...
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