Malka Leiferâs journey from gated community to a Melbourne court
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Wearing a white head wrap, accused child abuser Malka Leifer sat in silence before a Melbourne court via video link on Thursday, stooped over and hiding her face with her arms crossed.
Her hunched position was familiar from court appearances in her native Israel, but for the first time something was different: she was finally facing prosecution and her accusers on Australian soil, six years after the case against her was opened in 2014.
Malka Leiferâs home is located in one of the central streets in the settlement of Emmanuel, next to the main grocery.
Extradited teacher appears in Australia court on sex charges
FILE - This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. The former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, to face child sex abuse charges.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File) January 27, 2021 - 9:50 PM
MELBOURNE, Australia - A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
Malka Leifer, 54, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court by video link from a police station where she is in COVID-19 quarantine.
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Malka Leifer faces first court hearing in Australia over child sex abuse charges after extradition from Israel
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Malka Leifer s lawyer did not make any application for bail.
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Malka Leifer s lawyer says his client has significant mental health issues and needs special arrangements in custody, as the former school principal has faced an Australian court for the first time on child sexual abuse charges.
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Ms Leifer faced the Bail and Remand Court in Melbourne via video link
Her lawyer did not apply for bail but asked for her to be transferred to prison as soon as possible