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LOS ANGELES — An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim. Barrett, 48, of suburban Chicago, agreed to a 27-month prison sentence after pleading guilty. Andrews urged the judge at the hearing for a harsher sentence and said she fears for her life every time she enters a hotel. “You violated me and you violated all women,” Andrews told Barrett. “You are a sexual predator, a sexual deviant and they should lock you up.” Andrews, visibly nervous as she spoke, said she had no sympathy for Barrett’s claim that he was publicly humiliated. “It’s my body on the Internet,” she said. “I’m being traumatized every single day for what he did. … This will never be over for me.” Andrews testified in December that Barrett’s actions had a devastating impact on her and her family because she is constantly reminded that his videos appeared online and is subjected to cruel taunts from sports fans when she works as a sideline reporter. Andrews has agreed to appear on the new season of ABC-TV’s “Dancing with the Stars” – an offer she said ABC made before the stalking allegations. She said she doesn’t want to seclude herself from the public’s eye because other victims would get the wrong message.

And so the final chapter in the Erin Andrews peephole saga comes to a close. Tom Michael Barrett gets two years in prison and apparently Erin Andrews remains so traumatized by the incident that her only choice is to shake her perfect ass and shaved box on Dancing With the Stars. Maybe let Maksim Chmerkovskiy finger her on the ballroom floor for good measure. Truly the acts of a scarred and humiliated woman. Meanwhile somewhere in the Cayman Islands Tom Michael Barrett’s bank account just received a six figure deposit from a Bristol address.  As I’ve said from the beginning a more perfectly executed hoax these eyes have never seen.