MIAMI – Oscar Olea, the Key Biscayne gymnastics coach accused of sex crimes against two students, will remain behind bars until his trial, a Miami-Dade judge ruled late Thursday afternoon.
During a pre-trial detention hearing, Judge Alberto Milian ordered the 38-year-old to remain held without bond on six counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor.
Olea is accused of abusing and taking advantage of two teenage girls. Investigators said the incidents involved a 16-year-old and 14-year-old and happened several years ago, between 2009 and 2012, while Olea was working as a gymnastics coach in Key Biscayne.
The court heard an audio recording of one of those alleged victims Thursday.
“My intention in making things public wasn’t to create a scene and a drama it was to see if there’s any more victims,” the accuser said in the recording. “The truth needs to be told.”
The truth, according to the woman, was provided in an audio statement to Key Biscayne police Detective Fernando Carvajal. She said Olea forced a sexual relationship upon her around 2011, when she was only 13 or 14 and Olea was in his late 20s.
“It started with a peck, and then with tongue and he kissed me like...a French kiss or however you wanna call it,” she told police.
What started as kissing allegedly led to sex acts, the victim recounted one instance where she said Olea covered the windows of the second-floor gymnastics studio with mats.
“He pushed me and he starts kissing me and touching me and telling me that I’m beautiful and how much he loves me,” she said in the recording. “Then he starts touching me, running his hands through my body, all the way down, pulls my leotard to the side and (expletive) me.”
The accuser also told detectives she and Olea were intimate in his car and apartment.
“We would lay down on his bed to watch movies, cuddle naked,” she said.
In ordering Olea to remain locked up, Milian told Olea’s lawyer he’s read reports and investigative documents “that lead me to believe that your client actually was a pedophile.”
“I think the only place right now, and I’m saying this without prejudice, that would protect the community, is if he’s incarcerated,” Milian said.
A tentative trial date has been set for May 28.