Middle Tennessee man convicted of sex crimes against 3 children sentenced to 60 years in prison

A Wilson County man convicted of sex crimes involving three children at two Mt. Juliet apartment complexes was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison, according to the 15th Judicial District Office.

Pedro Barrera, 50, was sentenced without the possibility of early release by Judge Brody Kane, according to the district attorney's office. Barrera was also placed on the sex offender registry as a violent offender and sentenced to community supervision for life.

Barrera was convicted on all ten counts by a Wilson County jury on February 1 after a trial.

The charges included three counts of rape of a child, six counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

The victims in this case were aged 7 to 9 years old at the time the crimes took place between 2017 and 2020 in two separate locations in Mont Juliette. One of the victims was from the LC apartment community on Providence Parkway. The other two were from the Glass Creek apartment complex on Old Pleasant Grove Road, police previously said.

None of the victims were related to Barrera, who was arrested in 2021.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Tom Swink and Justin Harris. Barrera's attorney was named Eric Phillips and he had no comment for this story.

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