Leifer must serve at least 11 and a half years before she is eligible for parole
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal Malka Leifer will spend up to 15 years behind bars for the sexual abuse of two young high school students.
She was acquitted of nine other charges, including five against the siblings’ older sister Nicole Meyer.All three sisters were in the Victorian county court on Thursday when Judge Mark Gamble handed down his sentence and ordered Leifer serve at least 11.5 years in prison. Leifer targeted the sisters between 2004 and 2007 when they were students at the Adass Israel School, and later in their first year a student teachers.Erlich was aged between 16 and 19 and Ms Sapper aged 17 and 18.
In an hours-long sentencing hearing, Judge Gamble detailed the grooming and abuse inflicted upon the sisters, who had a difficult home life.
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