Leifer’s accusers horrified as defense suggests they consented to alleged abuse

20 July 2020, 2:40 pm

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Speaking to reporters over Skype following Malka Leifer’s extradition hearing, sisters Dassi Erlich and Nicole Meyer express their dismay over the defense’s calling into question whether they had consented to the alleged abuse by Malka Leifer.

“This was an incredibly traumatizing day for us. We did not expect the issue of consent in sexual abuse to still be an issue in the year 2020,” Erlich says.

Meyer says it was particularly difficult not being in the courtroom as the defense questioned their story. However, she says that the fact that the hearing finally took place, nine years after they she and her two sisters filed police complaints, “it gives us hope that she’ll be sent back.”

— Jacob Magid