Defendants turned a blind eye to obvious signs of Freundel’s increasingly bizarre behavior, ignoring the bright red flags that Freundel was acting inappropriately with women subjected to his authority.The Jewish student says that she used the Mikvah twice as part of her research for a paper titled "The Mikvah: Expanding the Ritual for Jewish Women," and each time Freundel accompanied her to the changing room and then left.
UPDATE: The Forward (Dec. 24) reports that two additional suits, also seeking class action status, were filed against Kesher Israel and the Rabbinical Council of America on Dec. 2 and Dec. 18 respectively. The suits claim that defendants should have acted sooner to remove Freundel from his positions of authority.