Gymnastic coach solicited naked photo, fretted over possible pregnancy, messages show
Facebook messages between longtime gymnastics coach Oscar Olea and one of two students he is accused of sexually abusing reveal a pregnancy scare as well as the coach soliciting a naked picture.
The messages are being used by the prosecution to support its claims that Olea sexually abused the two around 2011 while he was their coach.
The sex started when the alleged victims were 13 and 16, according to arrest warrants and the alleged victims, who spoke to the Herald. Olea developed what police say was a brother-sister relationship with both victims, which later turned sexual.
Olea’s arrest Wednesday came weeks after the Miami Herald published an investigation into Olea and his alleged abuse.
In one Facebook message from Olea to one of the alleged victims, the coach, then in his mid-20s, said he is drunk and high. The student replied: “Please be careful.”
He then solicited a naked picture from her.
“Send me a naked ass pic showing me that p---y and ill think about it,” he wrote, according to court documents. She declined.
In other messages, Olea told her to take a pregnancy test after she shared with him that she had missed her period and had pregnancy symptoms.
“Damn then if it says you are we going to an abortion clinic,” he wrote.
He went on to continue talking to the alleged victim when she went off to college, the messages show. In one message, he shared he had been trying to get “his body back” and sent a picture of himself shirtless.
In November 2012, Olea asked the alleged victim if her mom had been stalking him, according to the Facebook messages. Earlier that year, the mother had gone to police and told then-Chief Charles Press that the coach had raped her daughter when she was 17. The mom said she did not want to press charges, but only to make the matter known to police.
Recently informed of the message, the mom told the Herald that she had by chance spotted him coaching at the park and that Olea had smiled and waved at her. But she said she never confronted Olea or spoke to him about the situation.
Nevertheless, Olea had said in a Facebook message to her daughter: “So tell your mo if i see here and she says hi im going to tell her in her [expletive] face that if she ever says i did anything with you me and her are goin to have problems,” he wrote.
“Plus i cant go to jail your 18,” he said in another message.
Olea, 38, is charged with two counts of sex crimes with minors over 12 but under 18 while under familial or custodial care. Each charge came with a $25,000 bond. He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday before Circuit Judge Alberto Milian, but that was rescheduled to Tuesday morning because the prosecution did not provide all redacted discovery to the defense.
Key Biscayne police first opened an investigation into Olea last September after the families of two current students, ages 4 and 7, claimed he’d touched and spoken to them in an inappropriate manner during gymnastics classes. That investigation was closed in January and no charges were filed by the State Attorney’s Office.
He was arrested last week after two alleged victims from 12 years earlier came forward days after the Herald published its initial article on Olea, prompting a new investigation. One was interviewed by investigators in late January and the other, who provided police with the Facebook messages, flew in from out of state and was formally interviewed just two days before Olea’s arrest, according to a warrant.
On Monday, the U.S. Center for Safesport suspended Olea amid “allegations of misconduct,” according to its database.
Safesport is a nonprofit organization created in the wake of the investigation of Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of criminal sexual misconduct. The organization provides training and certifies coaches who teach minors.
