To date, little is known about manifestations of child sexual abuse (CSA) within ultra-orthodox Jewish communities both in Australia and abroad. There is a paucity of empirical studies on the prevalence of CSA within Jewish communities, and little information on the responses of Jewish community organisations, or the experiences of Jewish CSA survivors and their families. This paper draws on a case study of two ultra-orthodox Jewish organisations from the recent Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to examine the religious and cultural factors that may inform Jewish communal responses to CSA. Attention is drawn to factors that render ultra-orthodox communities vulnerable to large-scale CSA, religious laws and beliefs that may influence the reporting of abuse to secular authorities, and the communal structures that may lead to victims rather than offenders being subjected to personal attacks and exclusion from the community. Commonalities are identified between ultra-orthodox Jews and other faith-based communities, and reforms suggested to improve child safety across religious groups.

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极端正统的犹太社区和儿童性虐待：澳大利亚皇家委员会的案例研究及其对信仰社区的影响

迄今为止，对澳大利亚和国外极端正统犹太社区中儿童性虐待（CSA）的表现知之甚少。关于犹太社区中 CSA 流行的实证研究很少，关于犹太社区组织的反应或犹太 CSA 幸存者及其家人的经历的信息也很少。本文借鉴了最近澳大利亚皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的制度反应的两个极端正统犹太组织的案例研究，以研究可能影响犹太社区对 CSA 反应的宗教和文化因素。提请注意使极端正统社区容易受到大规模 CSA、宗教法律和信仰影响的因素，这些因素可能会影响向世俗当局报告虐待行为，以及可能导致受害者而不是罪犯受到人身攻击和被社区排斥的公共结构。在极端正统的犹太人和其他基于信仰的社区之间确定了共同点，并建议进行改革以改善跨宗教团体的儿童安全。