Former Georgetown Rabbi Sentenced to 6.5 Years on Voyeurism Charges: Report

By Elizabeth Janney

Former Georgetown Rabbi Barry Freundel was sentenced Friday to 6.5 years in jail for recording dozens of women in a ritual Georgetown bath as they were undressing, according to a report by The Washington Post.

He was sentenced to 45 days in jail for each of the 52 counts of voyeurism, according to WJLA.

Prosecutors had originally proposed approximately four months for each victim of the videotaping, which occurred between 2009 and 2014, The Washington Post reported.

When the sentence was announced, those attending the hearing applauded, according to WTOP. Freundel was immediately taken into custody.

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