WASHINGTON (DC)
Courthouse News Service
By DAN MCCUE
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CN) – A once-prominent Georgetown rabbi who admitted to secretly videotaping dozens of women in a Jewish ritual bath was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison on Friday.
Rabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel acknowledged as part of a plea agreement in February that he secretly recorded more than 150 women over several years.
Prosecutors were barred by the statute of limitations to charge him in connection with every recording, but he ultimately pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism.
Friday’s three-hour sentencing hearing Friday involved more than a dozen women telling the D.C. Superior Court of how they’ve suffered since learning of the rabbi’s betrayal.
Judge Geoffrey Alprin called Freundel ‘s actions “a classic abuse of power and violation of trust.”
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