WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Post
By Julie Zauzmer August 16
The victims of a D.C. rabbi, who was convicted of illegally recording naked women as they prepared for a ritual bath, are demanding at least $100 million in a lawsuit against the rabbi and several Orthodox Jewish institutions that supervised him.
Rabbi Barry Freundel, formerly an influential leader at Georgetown’s Kesher Israel synagogue and in the Modern Orthodox movement nationwide, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison last year for surreptitiously videotaping dozens of women.
On Tuesday, nine of those women who are seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against him named the amount they are seeking in court — at least $100 million, or $1 million for each victim, their lawyer David Sanford said.
Freundel pleaded guilty to taping 52 women, but prosecutors said he recorded more than 100 additional victims earlier than the three-year statute of limitations. “We don’t believe it’s unreasonable to seek a million dollars per person before a jury,” Sanford said.
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