Thursday, February 19, 2015

Barry Freundel pleads guilty to 52 counts of videotaping women in mikveh

Washington Post    Barry Freundel, a once-prominent D.C. Orthodox rabbi, admitted in court Thursday that he had secretly videotaped dozens of nude women as they prepared for a ritual bath.

In a hearing in D.C. Superior Court, Freundel pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism — one for each woman prosecutors identified who had been taped within the three-year statute of limitations.[...]

At a meeting at the U.S. Attorney’s Office last week, prosecutors said there may be as many as 150 women allegedly videotaped by the rabbi as they prepared for a private bath known as a mikvah, according to three people briefed on the investigation. [...]

6 comments :

  1. what a sick and disgusting individual

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  2. Are you sure? He's not chareidi.

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  3. 52 counts of voyeurism — one for each woman


    Wow! It is so sad.


    ...כך היא אומנותו של יצר הרע, היום אומר לו עשה כך, ומחר אומר לו עשה כך, עד שאומר לו



    Really sad.

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  4. are you dumb? obviously your empty rhetoric is simply false propaganda

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  5. This is actually a מוסר השכל for all of us about the power of the yetzer hara, which has brought down chashuva Rabbonim (sorry Barry, you're not one of them). Rabbonim also need shemira and should not be providing private counseling to females without their wives present.

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