MARYLAND
CBS Baltimore
[with video]
Vic Carter
TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — He was an influential religious leader and a respected and popular Towson University professor. But Rabbi Barry Freundel preyed on his female students, secretly videotaping them as they undressed for a ritual bath.
Vic Carter reports two of his victims are telling their stories on the ultimate betrayal of trust.
Rabbi Barry Freundel was a prominent spiritual leader and a respected Towson University professor.
He was also a master manipulator who lured women under the pretense of a religious cleansing ritual to get them to take off their clothes in front of hidden cameras he planted.
The rabbi admits to secretly videotaping dozens of women. Now, for the first time, two of his students–violated and betrayed by the man they trusted–are telling their stories to WJZ.
Reporter: “Tell us how the rabbi discussed the mikvah with you.”
Victim 1: “How it was presented to me was kind of like a personal baptism where you’re remade new and forgiven of all your sins.”
Victim 2: “He presented it also in that–it doesn’t have to be a religious thing… it’s just a very cleansing, relaxing–it is what you make it sort of thing. He was selling it–he was selling the mikvah.”
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