Gymnastics coach solicited naked photo and 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 prosecutors to support their 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 accusers, who spoke to the Miami Herald. Olea developed what police say was a brother-sister relationship that 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 accusers, 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 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 victim if her mom had been stalking him, according to the Facebook messages. Earlier that year, the mother had gone to Key Biscayne 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.
The mom told the Herald that she had by chance spotted him coaching at a park and that Olea had smiled and waved at her. But she never confronted Olea or spoke to him about the situation.
Nevertheless, Olea 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 the matter was rescheduled to Tuesday morning because the prosecution did not provide all redacted discovery to the defense.