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Washington Post
Rabbi charged with voyeurism hid camera in clock-radio in ritual bath, police report says
By Peter Hermann and Michelle Boorstein October 15
A prominent modern Orthodox rabbi at a Georgetown synagogue who was arrested Tuesday on a charge of voyeurism had a camera inside a clock-radio in the showers of a ritual bath, according to a D.C. police report made public on Wednesday.
A woman saw the 62-year-old rabbi, Barry Freundel of Kesher Israel Congregation, plugging the radio in, the report says, and police were notified. The synagogue’s board said in a statement that they informed authorities of the alleged impropriety.
It is not immediately clear whether anyone was filmed or photographed. Police were called to the synagogue on N Street Northwest on Sept. 28. Police arrested Freundel on Tuesday after a search of his home on O Street Northwest, also in Georgetown.
Freundel was charged with one count of voyeurism and is expected to make an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court Wednesday afternoon. More information about the case will most likely be available then when police affidavits are unsealed. If images were not distributed, the charge is a misdemeanor carrying up to a year in jail; if images were showed to others, the charge can be a felony carrying a prison term of up to five years.
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