Charles Barrett was convicted of repeatedly raping a woman in August 2016 while he worked and lived at the national park.
A 40-year-old professional rock climber has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal, repeated sexual assaults of a young woman in Yosemite National Park in 2016. A federal jury in February found Charles Barrett guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact that happened over a weekend in Yosemite National Park, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California.
Within days of going to police, she started to receive mysterious text messages and phone calls from an unknown number, court documents show. Three other women testified at trial that Barrett had also sexually assaulted them. The assaults, which occurred in 2010, 2015 and 2016, were not charged because they were outside federal jurisdiction, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. One woman, described in court documents only by her initials S.F.
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