Washington athletes sentenced
Rebecca Merritt
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Thrwt former University of Washington athlete*
were sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a
University student at the University Inn last year
Charles Douglas Barnes. 21. f’rentiss l-avell
Perkins, 22. and Jason Paul Shelley. 20. were each
sentenced to 120 davs in prison. 100 days sus
pended, and 24 months probation by ljma County
Circuit Judge David Brewer
The three were convicted on two counts of
third-degree sexual abuse, a class A misdemeanor,
according to court documents. They were found
not guilty of a first-degree burglary charge and
another count of sexual abuse.
The charges stem from an Oct. 31. 1993. inci
dent. when the three men entered a University Inn
room belonging to two lft-year-old female stu
dents. The women accused the men of exposing
themselves, touching their breasts and making
unwelcome sexual remarks
The men stood trial for three counts of first
degree sexual abuse and one count of burglary
before a 12-person jury last March. At the week
long trial, Barnes admitted he stole a gold necklace
from the women and that he and his two friends
were looking for marijuana at the residence. How
ever, Barnes and defense attorneys for Perkins and
Shelley denied any sexual misconduct.
The jury convicted the men of the lesser, third
decree sexual abuse charge but daimetf a mistrial
on the remaining counts. Brewer announced his
verdict on the remaining charges Thursday.
A femalo victim, who testified in March that she
thought the men would rape her. was in Fugene
for the sentencing. She quit attending the Univer
sity following the incident.
"No. 1 don’t think the sentence was fair," she
said. "It doesn't reflect the nature of the crime ”
The victim faced grueling hours of questioning,
sometimes breaking down in tears, at the March
trial.
"The defense attorneys made us out to be the
bad ones, It was as if the athletes were being pro
tected and we weren't." she said.
Barnes and Shelley were members of the Wash
ington footlwll team at the time of the incident and
I’erkins was the starting point of the Husky bas
ketball team.
Perkins is now a mom tier of the men's basketball
team at Concordia University in St. Paul. Min
nesota
The men received credit for jail time served
before their sentencing Shelley completed his sen
tence, Perkins reports to lane County jail in July
to serve 14 days., and Barnes will serve four days
beginning in June.
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