Well-known free solo climber Charles Barrett jailed for rape in Yosemite

A well-known California rock climber has been jailed for all times for sexually assaulting a girl a number of occasions throughout a mountain climbing journey in Yosemite Nationwide Park.

Charles Barrett, 40, used his repute within the sport “to assault girls within the rock-climbing group, and when his victims started to inform, Barrett responded by lashing out publicly with threats and intimidation,” prosecutors mentioned.

Following his arrest, Barrett additionally made greater than 100 telephone calls from jail to harass the girl and different alleged victims.

Barrett was convicted in February on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one depend of abusive sexual contact and sentenced by a federal decide in Sacramento on Tuesday.

Prosecutors say that Barrett sexually assaulted his 19-year-old sufferer on three events throughout a weekend in 2016.

A sentencing memo within the case acknowledged that on one event, Barrett lured her to an remoted space of the park the place he “strangled her to the purpose that she feared dying” whereas attacking her.

Three different girls testified that they had been sexually assaulted by Barrett in 2010, 2015 and 2016, reported SFGATE.

Prosecutors advised the courtroom that Barrett confirmed no “regret or remorse” for making the calls. Court docket papers state that in one name made in Could, Barrett described the accusations towards him as “wild” and “loopy.” He described them as “random ladies saying no matter they needed.”

“Barrett’s jail calls proceed to indicate an entire lack of regret and a mentality of victimhood that can’t be rehabilitated,” officers mentioned within the doc.