A well-known California rock climber has been sentenced to life in prison after sexually abusing a lady many times while hiking in Yosemite National Park.
Charles Barrett, 40, leveraged his sport’s prestige “to assault women in the rock-climbing community, and when his victims began to tell, Barrett responded by lashing out publicly with threats and intimidation,” authorities said.
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Following his arrest, Barrett made over 100 phone calls from jail to harass the woman and other claimed victims.
A federal judge in Sacramento sentenced Barrett on Tuesday after finding him guilty in February of two counts of severe sexual assault and one count of abusive sexual contact.
According to prosecutors, Barrett sexually attacked his 19-year-old victim three times over the course of a single weekend in 2016.
According to the sentencing statement, Barrett once took her to an isolated part of the park and “strangled her to the point that she feared death” while attacking her.
According to SFGATE, three other women testified that Barrett sexually attacked them in 2010, 2015, and 2016.
Prosecutors told the court that Barrett expressed no “remorse or regret” for making the calls. According to court documents, during one call in May, Barrett described the claims against him as “wild” and “crazy.” He referred to them as “random girls saying whatever they wanted.”
“Barrett’s jail calls continue to show a complete lack of remorse and a mentality of victimhood that cannot be rehabilitated,” the statement stated.
