Shortcut: Re-Issue: The Fight to Bring an Alleged Pedophile Headmistress Back to Australia to Face Justice: Survivor Dassi Erlich's Story
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
This is a re-issue of episode 99 from May 2019 2019
Dassi Erlich is living a life today she literally could never have imagined as a child. She couldn’t have imagined it because so much of what the rest of us take for granted was hidden from her by her parents and the other adults around her. Dassi and her six siblings were raised in the ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel community of Melbourne. you may have seen Dassi and two of her sisters on Australian Story, because their conservative sheltered upbringing was an illusion, far from being overly protected, they were actually being preyed upon in more ways than one.
Warning: please be advised this episode contains accounts of child sexual assault.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:25.8 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.1 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.4 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | In 2019 we spoke to Darcy Erlich, who at that time was waging a tireless campaign alongside her two sisters to see their former high school principal Malco Lifer brought back to Australia to face their allegations of sexual abuse. |
| 1:27.0 | Lifer had fled Australia with her family to Israel when she learned the allegations had been made against her in 2008 and was |
| 1:35.1 | finally found guilty of 18 rape and child sexual abuse charges in April of this year |
| 1:40.6 | 2023. Judge Mark Gamble set her sentencing date for August 24 |
| 1:46.0 | this year. There seems little doubt that Malca's gender played a part in the |
| 1:50.3 | disbelief her victims faced. |
| 1:53.0 | Just weeks ago on Australian true crime, |
| 1:55.4 | we spoke to John Rouse, one of the founding members of Task Force Argos, |
| 2:00.1 | the world leading team of analysts dedicated to investigating online child |
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