{"id":811827,"date":"2026-07-20T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:11:09","slug":"british-youtuber-yung-filly-appears-in-australian-court-over-rape-allegations-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811827\/","title":{"rendered":"British YouTuber Yung Filly appears in Australian court over rape allegations | Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A British YouTuber and musician bit and slapped a young female fan while he was raping her after a gig in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/western-australia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Australia<\/a>, a court has been told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Yung Filly, 30, has pleaded not guilty to six counts of sexually penetrating a 20-year-old woman without consent in a Perth hotel room in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The rapper, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, also denies impeding the woman\u2019s breathing by applying pressure to her neck and three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Barrientos and the woman initially engaged in consensual sex in the performer\u2019s room at the Intercontinental Hotel, prosecutor Danielle Clarke told the district court of Western Australia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">But Yung Filly became violent and started biting and slapping the woman before raping her multiple times, she said during her opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWhat should have been an exciting night out meeting her celebrity crush Yung Filly was fun until it wasn\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The woman allegedly suffered multiple injuries during the assault, including extensive bruising to her face and neck and bite wounds on her right breast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The court heard the woman was a fan of Yung Filly and had gone to the gig at a bar in Perth\u2019s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">After Yung Filly\u2019s set, the woman was invited into a VIP area where she met the musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He told her \u201cyou\u2019re coming home with me tonight\u201d before pushing his hand down the back of her pants, Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The pair left the venue about 3am with the rapper\u2019s all-male entourage in tow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The woman believed she was being taken to an after-party, Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Instead, they went to Yung Filly\u2019s hotel, where one of his minders took her phone and the performer led her to room 217.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">During sex, Barrientos allegedly bit the woman\u2019s neck and breast numerous times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe bites hurt and [the woman] said ouch and asked the accused to be gentle,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Barrientos allegedly told her to stop talking and bit her harder before slapping her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">During the incident, Barrientos told her to say \u201cI\u2019m Filly\u2019s dirty whore\u201d but she refused, Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Prosecutors say it was at this point that the woman started to fear for her own safety and consent to sex was withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cShe didn\u2019t know how to get herself out of the situation and decided to do what the accused wanted,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Barrientos allegedly then raped the woman multiple times before ordering himself a Wagyu burger via room service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As the woman was getting ready to leave the hotel room, one of Barrientos\u2019s minders came into the room and she heard the performer tell him that she was not \u201cgood in bed\u201d, the court was told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Barrientos allegedly grabbed her breasts as she was leaving and said to the minder: \u201cHow good are her boobs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The trial continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"> Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse is available from the following organisations. In Australia, support is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/fullstop.org.au\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full Stop Australia<\/a> (1800 385 578). In the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/rapecrisis.org.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rape Crisis<\/a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainn.org\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rainn<\/a> offers support on 800-656-4673. Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British YouTuber and musician bit and slapped a young female fan while he was raping her after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-811827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}