Professional rock climber sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault at Yosemite National Park
A professional rock climber was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison in the 2016 sexual assault of a woman at Yosemite National Park, federal prosecutors said.
A professional rock climber was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison in the 2016 sexual assault of a woman at Yosemite National Park, federal prosecutors said.
Charles Barrett, 40, was sentenced for two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Phillip A. Talbert.
Barrett was living and working at the national park when a woman visited there in August 2016 for a weekend of hiking. Barrett sexually assaulted her three times, according to court records and evidence presented at trial, prosecutors said.
Three other women testified at Barrett’s trial that he also sexually assaulted them, prosecutors said.
Barrett was not charged in those assaults because they occurred outside the jurisdiction of federal prosecutors, but the women’s testimonies were admitted during trial as relevant to the charges Barrett faced, prosecutors said.
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