‘Took my virginity’: A dramatic day as accuser describes abuse by gymnastics coach

In a dramatic audio recording performed in court docket Wednesday, a former pupil of gymnastics coach Oscar Olea described how “he took my virginity”, forcing himself on her after a personal lesson on the American Gymsters gymnasium in Key Biscayne.

He was in his mid-20s. She was 16.

It was an intense day in court docket that began with the decide displaying irritation with prosecutors and ending with the state including 4 new felony fees in opposition to the longtime coach, a fixture in Key Biscayne. They contain two former college students, the girl within the audio performed Wednesday and a second who says she was 13 when she was first abused.

Talking by way of tears within the recording, the older of the 2 college students, talked about how Olea started by taking part in “video games” along with her throughout automobile journeys to personal gymnastics classes wherein he would put his hand close to her vagina.

She mentioned that in the course of the automobile rides, she would inform him, “OK, you’re an excessive amount of,” and he would reassure her, saying “it could be OK.”

She associated how he obtained more and more aggressive, asking her if she was a virgin and she or he described how, on the gymnasium in a Key Biscayne strip buying heart, at some point he pushed the gymnasium mats and gear up in opposition to the home windows to obscure the view.

“After which was like we’re simply gonna do it, and he pulled out a condom… I used to be startled,” she mentioned.

At a number of factors within the recording, the tearful former pupil, interviewed previously month, turned overcome and needed to pause.

Olea, 38, remained stoic, wanting straight forward, because the audio performed to an in any other case silent courtroom, full of information media and relations of the defendant.

Olea started the day going through two prison counts. By day’s finish, the Miami-Dade State Lawyer’s Workplace had added 4 extra felony fees, all of them intercourse abuse of a kid by an individual in familial or custodial care, all involving the identical victims.

The listening to, to determine whether or not Olea will stay in jail till trial, will proceed Thursday in entrance of Circuit Decide Alberto Milian.

Over the course of the listening to that started on Monday, the decide has proven irritation with the prosecution over its preparation. As an example, he was disturbed when the state didn’t redact the names of the alleged rape victims from a video of a police interview performed in court docket. He has additionally confirmed unhappiness upon listening to from the protection that it had been supplied audio recordings by the state wherein the voices of victims had been altered, one thing the decide known as “unacceptable.”

Greater than a decade in the past, the households of the victims went to Key Biscayne police, one reporting that Olea had raped their by-then 17-year-old daughter, the opposite holding disturbing love letters between the coach and their 14-year-old. Neither household wished to press fees on the time.

After the Miami Herald interviewed the 2 now-adult girls, telling their story in January in an article titled “Key Biscayne’s Darkish Secret,” the police took motion, arresting Olea final week. Key Biscayne police are fascinating in speaking to anybody else who could have been a sufferer.