Chief Rabbi Mirvis leads way in tackling child abuse as rabbis attend special training session

Rabbis were told of the halachic requirements to tackle abuse and were given training by psychotherapists on how to advise victims.

The session came as a major report into child sex abuse was published. The study, released by the children’s commissioner, showed as many as 450,000 cases of abuse may have been carried out from April 2012 to March 2014 in Britain.

The majority of cases are carried out by friends of family of the victim and up to 85 per cent go unreported, the study claimed.

British campaigner Yehudis Goldsobel, who was abused as a child by a member of her strictly Orthodox Stamford Hill community and waived her lifetime anonymity to tell her story in the JC, will appear in a documentary - The Truth About Child Sex Abuse – on BBC2 at 10pm on Tuesday.

Ms Goldsobel, who now runs the charity Migdal Emunah, told the BBC’s Breakfast programme of her experience of reporting her abuser to members of her community, and later the police. Her abuser was jailed in 2013.