Rabbi Who Videotaped Women Undressing at Jewish Ritual Bath Sentenced to 6 ? Years

By Joce Sterman
WJLA
May 15, 2015

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/05/rabbi-who-taped-women-at-bath-to-learn-voyeurism-sentence-113992.html

A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who secretly videotaped scores of women undressing and using a changing room at a Jewish ritual bath in Washington has been sentenced to approximately six-and-a-half years in prison.

Bernard Freundel was sentenced Friday during a hearing in D.C. Superior Court. Prosecutors had asked that a judge sentence Freundel to approximately 17 years in prison. His attorney argued community service was an appropriate sentence.

Freundel acknowledged as part of a plea agreement in February that he secretly recorded more than 150 women over several years by setting up hidden recording devices in a changing and showering area of The National Capital Mikvah, a ritual cleansing bath he worked to have built. Prosecutors said his recordings captured women undressing, using the toilet and entering and exiting a shower.