SURVIVING MALKA LEIFER 'THE SHAME IS NOT OURS'

NICOLE AND HER SISTERS ARE TAKING BACK CONTROL

- Maisy Rae

Nicole Meyer knows the exact number of days and weeks it's been since her abuser was found not guilty on a range of historic sex offences against her.

"The verdict still impacts me deeply, it's still very hard for me to accept it," Nicole, from Melbourne, tells New Idea.

"There's my whole life before the verdict, and then my life after it. I felt a lot of shame but then something changed inside me. I realised there was no way I was going to allow her to silence me."

Along with her sisters, Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper, Nicole was abused by the now-convicted sex offender Malka Leifer between 2003 and 2007. In 2023, Leifer was found guilty of 18 child sexual abuse charges against Dassi and Elly only, and sentenced to 15 years in jail.

The sisters' 15-year campaign to bring Leifer to justice is charted in the documentary