{"id":510000,"date":"2010-04-03T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec6d9e47970b"},"modified":"2010-04-03T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:01:00","slug":"erin-andrews-is-under-protection-after-death-threats-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/510000","title":{"rendered":"Erin Andrews is &#8216;under protection&#8217; after death threats, lawyer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<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: 169px; height: 225px;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-10\/49641366.jpg\"><\/img>Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who last month was at the center of a Los Angeles court case involving a man who secretly videotaped her, has now been the subject of death threats, her attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews, who is appearing on ABC&#8217;s &quot;Dancing with the Stars,&quot; is now under protection. Her attorney, in a statement released to the media, did not specify the threats but said the FBI has been notified.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is unfortunate that<br \/>\nthere are sick people who prey on the fears and threaten the well-being<br \/>\nof others,&quot; Marshall Grossman said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8b0412;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p>Andrews spoke out last month about what she considered the light sentenced an L.A. federal judge handed down to a<br \/>\nChicago-area businessman who pleaded guilty to charges he\u00a0secretly shot<br \/>\nvideo of her and posted it on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews said she felt Michael David Barrett<br \/>\ndeserved a harsher sentence and that she continues to be victimized<br \/>\nbecause the videos remain on the Internet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In court, Andrews told the judge: &quot;He stalked me, he terrorized me<br \/>\n&#8212; this will never be over for me, and I don&#8217;t want it to ever be over<br \/>\nfor you,&quot; she said, referring to Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You are a sexual predator, a sexual deviant,&quot; she told Barrett,<br \/>\nsaying she lives in a state of fear and needs security at work and<br \/>\nhome. &quot;They should lock you up and throw away the key.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8b0412;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p>In December, Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., pleaded guilty to<br \/>\nvarious charges in connection with the case, including having the<br \/>\nintent to &quot;harass or to cause substantial emotional distress&quot; to<br \/>\nAndrews. He admitted that he used the Internet to try to distribute his<br \/>\nvideos.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett\u00a0was<br \/>\naccused of shooting videos of Andrews through peepholes in hotel rooms<br \/>\nin three states,\u00a0posting the videos on the Internet and trying to sell<br \/>\nthem to celebrity website TMZ, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Erin Andrews. Credit: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who last month was at the center of a Los Angeles court case involving a man who secretly videotaped her, has now been the subject of death threats, her attorney said. Andrews, who is appearing on ABC&#8217;s &quot;Dancing with the Stars,&quot; is now under protection. Her attorney, in a statement [&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-510000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510000","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=510000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}