“Love Island USA” contestant Cashel Barnett has been accused of sexually assaulting his former girlfriend, including to different allegations towards the truth star, who was jailed final month.
Salt Lake County prosecutors this week charged Barnett, 34, with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault and home violence within the presence of a kid.
Final month, Barnett was charged with felony aggravated assault, felony home violence within the presence of a kid and two counts of misdemeanor assault. Barnett has been held on the Salt Lake Metropolis jail in Utah since his arrest.
Barnett maintains his innocence and denies any wrongdoing.
“My consumer and his household are enduring an extremely troublesome time, and we hope that his privateness might be revered as we work diligently to defend his identify and fame,” legal professional Andrew Okay. Deesing mentioned in an announcement. “Clearly, we’re within the very early phases of this and don’t have any additional remark at the moment.”
The allegations are linked to Barnett’s ex-girlfriend, who shouldn’t be named in courtroom paperwork.
The brand new indictment alleges {that a} sexual assault occurred on April 10, a couple of month after Barnett withheld intercourse from his ex-girlfriend. Barnett withheld intercourse after the lady advised him to get a job to assist assist their 1-year-old daughter, in response to the courtroom paperwork.
The pair fought about their intimacy points, and Barnett “grabbed her from behind, pushed her head into the sofa, inflicting her to lose consciousness, then raped her ‘violently,'” the indictment states.
A police report states that Barnett’s ex-girlfriend advised police he bodily abused her that very same month.
The alleged abuse occurred after the lady tried to calm Barnett throughout an argument in entrance of the kid, the police report states.
She mentioned in the course of the incident, Barnett slapped her arms, picked her up by her neck utilizing each fingers and slammed her onto a mattress, in response to the police report. Barnett allegedly throttled the lady with “steady stress,” disrupting her respiration and imaginative and prescient, in response to the report.
“Barnett then slapped [the woman] within the face and mentioned, ‘You’re effective,'” the police report says.
Barnett, who lives within the Salt Lake Metropolis space, competed on the primary season of “Love Island USA” in 2019. Barnett is a drummer for a number of bands and fashions, in response to his social media accounts.
