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Posted: 2024-06-06T21:26:27Z | Updated: 2024-06-06T21:26:27Z

A once-celebrated rock climber was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for repeatedly raping a woman hiker in Yosemite National Park, following years of allegations of sexual assault, violent attacks, threats and harassment of other women in the rock-climbing community, prosecutors said .

Charles Charlie Barrett, 40, was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact against the woman, identified in court documents as K.G., for the August 2016 rapes in Yosemite.

Three other women were also allowed to testify in the trial about his alleged attacks on them, which prosecutors said occurred from 2008 through 2016. He was not charged in those cases, which fell outside of federal jurisdiction, but prosecutors said they demonstrated a pattern of predatory behavior and intimidation.