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Georgetown Law School Named in Suit over Professor’s Alleged Voyeurism
December 4, 2014 | By Kimberly Scharfenberger
Georgetown University Law School is facing a lawsuit filed by a third-year law student alleging that the law school “turned a blind eye” to the actions of an instructor charged with six counts of voyeurism, according to The Washington Post.
The instructor in question, Rabbi Barry Freundel, is a tenured professor at Towson University in Baltimore, Md., and taught a seminar in Jewish studies last spring at Georgetown. He was arrested in October and is scheduled for a hearing in D.C. Superior Court on Jan. 16.
Police found evidence that Freundel had been using hidden cameras to record women using a mikvah, a ritual bath used primarily by observant Jewish women for purification.
The student accused Freundel “of luring her to the bath as part of her studies at the school,” The Washington Post reported. Freundel encouraged the student “to write her research paper on the mikvah ritual and told her to research it by participating in the immersion,” according to NBC Washington.
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