Overview
- Victoria’s County Court imposed a 22-month term with 19 months wholly suspended for three years.
- Judge John Kelly credited 99 days served in New York, allowing Serebryanski to leave court under a three-year good behaviour bond as a registered sex offender.
- A jury last year convicted him of three counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual penetration of a child for offences at Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre in the late 1980s.
- The judge called the offending an attack on childhood and said he did not expect reoffending, citing the arrest, detention and extradition as deterrents.
- Manny Waks said he felt relief that the case had concluded and reaffirmed his focus on justice, accountability and prevention.