WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Jewish Week
APRIL 26, 2018
BY DAN SCHERE
Victims of convicted voyeur Barry Freundel received an email Wednesday saying he will be released two years early. But that email was wrong, Freundel’s attorney, Jeffrey Harris, said today.
The District of Columbia Department of Corrections incorrectly informed victims that Freundel’s release date had been moved up to Aug. 21, 2018.
Today, the same people received another email saying that Freundel will be released on the same date in 2020, Harris said.
Freundel, former rabbi of Kesher Israel, an Orthodox congregation in Georgetown, pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism and was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in 2015. He was arrested in 2014 for videotaping naked women undergoing conversion to Judaism while he was in charge of the National Capital Mikvah.
Harris said he received both emails and believes the incorrect date was a clerical error by the Department of Corrections. The department has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
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