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Indictment outlines alleged offences against students, which ex-head of Melbourne ultra-orthodox Jewish school denies
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The former principal of an ultra-orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs has been charged with dozens of sexual assault and rape offences against students between 2003 and 2007.
Opening arguments in the criminal trial of Malka Leifer, who led the Adass Israel school in Elsternwick, begin in the Victorian county court on Wednesday after a jury was empanelled this week.
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