David Cyprys, a long time employee of Chabad's Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne, Australia, had 22 more counts added against him in a court appearance today (Friday in Australia). Cyprys asked the court for a media blackout of the trial. The judge is expected to make her decision regarding that next week. Cyprys was allegedly protected for years by Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, the late head of Chabad in Australia. Police have had contact with almost 20 men who say they were victims of Cyprys when they were students in Chabad's yeshiva. Many of them are part of the court case against Cyprys.
David Cyprys
Originally published at 11:19 pm CST 1-26-2012
Aussie writes:
Cyprys was supported in court by his father.....No other frum people were noticed in court......His lawyer as I posted months ago in the comments on the blog in no longer Lewenberg....Some female lawyer now acts for him...
Cyprys received additional charges....He is now facing 51 charges in total....Was 29 charges before(I think)....
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His legal team have applied for a suppression order on the case......The Australian Jewish news objected to the suppression.....As did the mainstream media....The media will have council in court Monday to oppose the suppression....
One of the victims also made a statement objecting the suppression....
Reasons for the objection are that 1 )media coverage gives access to information for the victims...2) Facilitates more victims to come forward as has been seen by the new additional charges....
The judge granted a temporary suppression till monday when she (female judge) will hear from everyone and hand down her decision on if to order the trial be suppressed....
In most cases they usually only grant suppression orders if the victims are the person's own kids....reason being that to name the pedo in the media and to say he's facing court for molestation of his own kids means that everyone would know who the victims are....
Court will always protect the victims.....
In this case Wax can be named cos he went public but the other victims can not....I'm told there are now 11 victims who came forward....