The son of a prominent Chabad rabbi in Australia was convicted on charges of child sexual abuse Friday, capping off a long-running scandal that rocked the country’s Jewish community when it first broke.

Velvel Serebryanski, 61, was found guilty by a jury at the County Court of Victoria of having molested Manny Waks when he was still a child growing up in Melbourne’s Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions. Waks is now an advocate for victims of child sex abuse.

Serebryanski denied all three charges of indecent assault and one charge of sexual penetration of a child aged between 10 and 16, but was nevertheless found guilty on all counts, in what Waks described as “the closing of a long and painful circle.”

Serebryanski’s pre-sentencing plea hearing is scheduled for Friday next week, on December 12, where Waks will appear in court to deliver his victim impact statement.

“I am relieved to share this outcome and grateful that justice has finally been served,” Waks said in a statement announcing the conviction. “Most victims and survivors of child sexual abuse never get any justice. With today’s verdict, I’ve now held to account both of my abusers.”

Waks was abused in the late 1980s by Serebryanski and former........

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