Rabbi loses defamation case over coverage of child sex abuse comments
Defamation
2020-02-03 2:22 pm
| Sydney
A Sydney rabbi who told the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he did not know touching a child’s genitals was a crime has lost a defamation case against SBS and the Murdoch-owned Nationwide News, with the NSW Supreme Court finding that the media “accurately reported” the rabbi’s own words.