WASHINGTON (DC)
CBS News
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Georgetown University law student is suing after she says she was sexually exploited by a rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women in a Jewish ritual bath.
The Washington Post reports that the civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court and seeks class action status.
The rabbi, 62-year-old Barry Freundel, was arrested in October and is charged with voyeurism for allegedly placing a hidden camera in the shower area of a ritual bath, called a mikvah. The lawsuit says the student took a Jewish law class Freundel co-taught at Georgetown and visited the mikvah at Freundel’s urging.
The lawsuit says the university, the synagogue where Freundel was a rabbi and the mikvah ignored “red flags” that he was acting improperly.
The student isn’t identified by name in the complaint.
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