The insurance executive, who shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and then posted them to the Internet, was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday.
“You violated me and you violated all women,” Andrews told Michael David Barrett, 49, in the courtroom. “You are a sexual predator, a sexual deviant and they should lock you up.”
Barrett initially pled not guilty to charges that he had intended to “harass or to cause substantial emotional distress” to Andrews, but changed his plea in exchange for a reduced sentence. At yesterday’s hearing, however, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real sentenced the defendant to the maximum amount of time allowable under the law, saying of Barrett, “The victim, Andrews, will be suffering with this problem for the rest of her life. There is no life sentence that can be imposed upon him, except his own guilt.”
Even that punishment did not fit the crime according to Andrews, who told reporters after sentencing, “Thirty months is not enough.”
Andrews may be only one of more than a dozen women whom Barrett videotaped through peepholes in their hotel rooms. Though federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have agreed not to press further charges, Barrett could be facing criminal action in other states where these transgressions occurred.

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