WASHINGTON (DC)
The Baltimore Sun
A lawyer for a rabbi accused of videotaping women at a Jewish ritual bath says his client will plead guilty to more than 50 counts of voyeurism.
Barry Freundel, a former associate professor at Towson University, is expected to enter the plea Thursday afternoon in D.C. Superior Court. His lawyer, Jeffrey Harris, says his client will plead guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism.
Freundel is currently charged with six counts of voyeurism for videotaping six women. But prosecutors told a closed-door meeting of victims last week that Freundel had taped more than 150 women, though the statute of limitations bars them from charging him with many of the tapings. Several people who were inside spoke to The Associated Press.
An attorney who said his firm is representing some of the alleged victims has said several were Towson University students.
Attorney Steven Kelly, of Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White LLC, did not attend the Washington meeting last week. But based on information from clients and his firm’s investigation, he said, Freundel allegedly took students from various courses, not just religious studies courses, to the mikvah, or ritual bath house. He said some students were offered extra credit to participate.
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