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WASHINGTON –
A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping scores of women in a changing room of a Jewish ritual bath was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
More than a dozen women taped by Rabbi Bernard Freundel testified before the judge announced his sentence Friday afternoon.
Freundel acknowledged as part of a plea agreement in February that he secretly recorded more than 150 women over several years. A statute of limitations would have barred prosecutors from charging Freundel for every recording, and he pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism. Each count is punishable by up to a year in jail.
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