Rabbi Barry Freundel was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for videotaping dozens of nude women at a ritual bath.
“You repeatedly and secretly violated the trust your victims had in
you, and you abused your power,” Senior Judge
Geoffrey Alprin of
D.C. Superior Court said at the sentencing, the Washington Post reported. Alprin also fined Freundel more than $2,000.
Prosecutors had sought 17 years after Freundel, the former spiritual
leader of a prominent Washington Orthodox synagogue, pleaded guilty in
February to 52 counts of misdemeanor voyeurism. Freundel’s lawyers
sought community service. Each count carried a maximum penalty of one
year in prison and fines of $1,000 to $2,500.
Freundel was given 45 days for each of the 52 counts. He will serve
the sentences successively, amounting to nearly six and a half years.
Mikvah-peeping rabbi sentenced to 6.5 years | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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