Love Island USA star Cashel Barnett was ordered not to contact his ex-girlfriend, who accused him of sexually assaulting her, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by Us, Barnett, 34, who remains locked up in a Utah jail, was ordered not to harass or threaten his ex and mother of his 15-month-old child.
The order instructed Barnett not to contact his ex via email, telephone or social media. The judge said the order will remain in effect until further order of the court. A source close to the case told Us the protective order was “procedural.”
As Us previously reported, on June 24, the State of Utah filed three felony charges against Barnett: two charges of aggravated assault (one a 1st degree felony and the other a 3rd degree felony) and domestic violence in the presence of a child.
“Mr. Barnett is presumed innocent, strongly denies any wrongdoing, and looks forward to his day in court,” Barnett’s attorney Andrew K. Deesing told People. “We’re in the very early stages of this, so we don’t have any further comment at this time.”
Barnett was hit with the new charges while he was locked up in a Utah jail, where he had been since May due to an alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend.
In court documents, over the felony charges, it was revealed that police were called to investigate a report of sexual assault.
Barnett’s ex claimed they had been in an argument in November 2024 “when she requested that he get a job to help pay for their daughter.” She said as a form of punishment he withheld sex, kissing and hand-holding from her. She said she had been withholding sex from him.
The court documents said Barnett told the alleged victim he was a “house slave” and that she was “ruining his dream.” His ex claimed that when “[Barnett] abused her, he told her it was her fault.”
The argument erupted on a date in December 2024. Barnett started kissing her and putting his hands down her pants. She claimed when she kissed him back, he pushed her off the couch and told her not to get up because she was in “trouble.”
The report said the alleged victim got up and walked to the bedroom, but “Barnett grabbed both her hands from behind her, demonstrated the handcuff position, then picked her up and did a ‘swoop onto the couch.’”
The alleged victim said Barnett pulled his pants down and screamed at her, ‘Is this what you f***ing want?’ and ‘Are you f***ing happy now?’” She said she couldn’t breathe and lost consciousness. She said she believed she lost consciousness for one minute when Barnett “sat her up, slapped her across the face really hard and just kept going.”
The alleged victim told police that she remembered waking up to Barnett slapping her and “felt like she was still kind of limp for a minute.” She said Barnett was sexually assaulting her. She claimed he stopped when she grabbed their child.
The prosecutors wrote, “The victim reported that on the date of the sexual assault, she attempted to walk away from the defendant, however he grabbed her from behind, pushed her head into the couch, causing her to lose consciousness, then raped her ‘violently.’ [Barnett] then ‘sat her up’, ‘slapped her’ and strangled her again, while their minor daughter was in the room crying and yelling.”
In court documents, it was also revealed that Barnett’s ex accused him of strangling her in front of their kid on April 10, 2025. She claimed as she was about to lose consciousness, he slapped her “so hard across the face” and then told her, “You’re fine.”
“The defendant is unemployed and the victim believes [Barnett] tried to kill her,” prosecutors said. They asked that Barnett be held without bond due to fears for the alleged victim’s safety.
Court documents obtained by Us show the alleged victim filed a separate case pleading for temporary custody of the kids.
Cashel appeared on season 1 of Love Island USA.
As Us previously reported, another Love Island USA cast member was involved in a scandal of her own his month over an alleged slur.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support.
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