{"id":431249,"date":"2010-03-15T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fa3f189970c"},"modified":"2010-03-15T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:34:08","slug":"man-who-secretly-videotaped-espns-erin-andrews-gets-30-months-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431249","title":{"rendered":"Man who secretly videotaped ESPN&#8217;s Erin Andrews gets 30 months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles federal judge today sentenced a Chicago businessman to 30 months in prison for secretly shooting video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and and posting it on the<br \/>\nInternet.<\/p>\n<p> Michael David Barrett, 49, was also ordered to pay restitution totaling\u00a0 $7,366.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8b0412;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-10\/49641366.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-10\/49641366.jpg\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left; width: 254px; height: 338px;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-10\/49641366.jpg\"><\/img>Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., pleaded guilty to<br \/>\nvarious charged in December, including having the intent to &quot;harass or to<br \/>\ncause substantial emotional distress&quot; to Andrews. He admitted that he<br \/>\nused the Internet to try to distribute his videos.<\/p>\n<p>At the December hearing, Andrews spoke out against Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cHe stalked me in a calculated way,\u201d Andrews told the court. \u201cI\u2019ve<br \/>\nbeen humiliated. I\u2019ve been embarrassed and my career has been ripped<br \/>\napart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barrett\u00a0was accused of shooting videos of Andrews through peepholes<br \/>\nin hotel rooms in three states,\u00a0 posting the videos on the Internet and<br \/>\ntrying to sell them to celebrity website TMZ.com, court records show. <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"more\" name=\"more\" type=\"button_count\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In February 2008, Barrett stayed in the room next to Andrews in<br \/>\nColumbus, Ohio, where he used a peephole to secretly shoot video of her<br \/>\nnaked in her room, according to the plea agreement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Barrett also spied on Andrews at a Nashville hotel in September 2008<br \/>\nand shot video of her while she was unclothed, the plea agreement<br \/>\nstates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Seven of the eight videos posted on an Internet site apparently were<br \/>\ntaken in the Nashville hotel room, according to federal authorities. <\/p>\n<p>\t<a id=\"more\" name=\"more\" type=\"button_count\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI am subject to crude comments,&quot; she told the court in December. &quot;I walk into stadiums,<br \/>\nand fans make crude comments to me. I have nightmares about this sexual<br \/>\npredator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles federal judge today sentenced a Chicago businessman to 30 months in prison for secretly shooting video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and and posting it on the Internet. Michael David Barrett, 49, was also ordered to pay restitution totaling\u00a0 $7,366. Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., pleaded guilty to various charged in December, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}