WASHINGTON (DC)
Fox 5
[with video]
By Maureen Umeh, FOX 5 Reporter & Anchor
By Paul Wagner, FOX 5 Reporter
WASHINGTON –
D.C. police have arrested and charged a prominent Georgetown rabbi with voyeurism.
Barry Freundel was arrested at his Georgetown home Tuesday morning and has been the rabbi of the Kesher Israel Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue, on N Street in Northwest D.C. since 1989.
Freundel is accused of setting up a hidden camera inside his Northwest D.C. synagogue and recording women as they showered.
The alleged crime happened in an area of the synagogue known as a mikvah. It is a ritual bath where congregants go to get spiritually cleansed.
D.C. police say Rabbi Freundel used cameras set up in a changing area just outside the mikvah to peep on women.
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