SAN FRANCISCO — A former schoolteacher has been sentenced to federal jail for receiving express selfies from minors, crimes that had been solely found when the defendant’s important different was investigated for related conduct.
U.S. District Choose Susan Illston final month sentenced Charles Barrett, of San Francisco, to 5 years in jail and three years supervised launch. Barrett’s sentencing got here weeks after a unique choose sentenced Marc Nunez, Barrett’s husband, to at least one yr behind bars.
Prosecutors stated in a sentencing memo that the crimes dated again to 2013 and 2014, when Barrett allegedly inspired teen boys to ship him express photos of themselves. Authorities say he acquired 9 photos from one boy who acknowledged he was 16, and no less than one picture from one other 16-year-old boy. Barrett additionally despatched the second boy express photos of himself, prosecutors stated.
Initially of the prosecution, in 2022, prosecutors stated one of many victims advised police that Barrett traveled to the Fresno space to fulfill and sexually abuse him. Nunez and Barrett’s crimes had been found after police transformed one other youngster pornographer right into a confidential informant and received him to disclose the identities of others he knew to be inquisitive about youngster porn, based on court docket data. Police say they recognized 70 victims between the three males.
Barrett, a former music instructor on the Cathedral College for Boys and Alta Vista College, pleaded responsible to receiving youngster pornography. Nunez, a kindergarten substitute instructor on the Cathedral College for Boys, was sentenced to a yr and a day in jail in late Might.
Barrett has till late October to show himself into the Bureau of Prisons and start his sentence, court docket data present. He submitted an apology letter wherein he stated he dedicated his crimes whereas depressed after having ended an abusive relationship.
“It was throughout this darkish interval of my life that I engaged within the conduct on the heart of this case,” Barrett wrote. “I by no means supposed to trigger any hurt however ignorance is just not a justification for my actions. I now know the way my actions and decisions had been improper, I deeply remorse what I did and can by no means make the identical mistake once more.”
