Alleged pedophile Malka Leifer is fit to stand trial, according to a panel of psychiatric experts which has evaluated her over the last two months. Leifer has claimed to be mentally unfit for trial ever since she was arrested in Israel in 2014 on 74 charges of the sexual molestation and rape of school girls at the Adas Israel school in Melbourne, Australia, where she worked from 2000 to 2008. The three-member panel was appointed following a decision in September by Judge Chana Miriam Lomp of the Jerusalem District Court seeking a conclusive assessment of Leifer’s mental state, as she has claimed mental illness for almost six years in order to avoid extradition. The court will hear the assessment of the psychiatric panel next Tuesday. Leifer fled from Australia to Israel in 2008 after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced against her, but legal proceedings in Israel for extradition only began in 2014. After Leifer was arrested that year, she claimed mental illness to avoid extradition to Australia, a claim which was eventually accepted by the Jerusalem district psychiatrist and the court, and legal proceedings against her were dropped. But In 2018, Leifer was rearrested on suspicion of feigning mental illness to avoid extradition, and legal proceedings were restarted. Meyer Seewald, director of Jewish Community Watch, said in response to the findings: “From the day we began collecting evidence that Malka Leifer was faking her mental illness, we have been waiting anxiously for this outcome. We hope that this is a turning point in this drawn-out saga, and that Malka Leifer will be swiftly extradited to Australia to face her accusers in court.”
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