Case Document 59 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/04/2013 Page and showed an interest in it. So my family said it was okay.

And I went to All American Gymnastics in st. Louis and Ray
Adams was my coach.

And at first I liked him. Everyone liked him. He
acted like one of the kids basically. He would run around and
do tumbling runs and laugh with us and ask us about our friends
that we had in school, ask us if we had boyfriends.

Just looking back now I see that he was, he was
And I did. I trusted him.

grooming us to trust him. And I

enjoyed gymnastics. I enjoyed going to competition. I enjoyed

doing all of the different apparatuses. And I think he was
trying to see how far he could get with me.

There was one apparatus that was my best, which was
bars, and a couple of different times more than a couple,
more than a few, probably four or five. I don't times I
would be on the lower bar holding myself up, and he would have
his hand on my arm standing there next to me and with his thumb
he would rub my nipple. And I think he was doing it so see how
far he could get with me, to see if I would say anything, to
see if I would stop him, to see if I would tell a parent and
see if I would do something. And I never did.
And then competition was coming up, and he said that I
needed a private lesson to work on my tumbling run for my floor
exercise. And so I talked to my grandma who is the one that

took me to gymnastics. she always stayed. I talked to her,

 

 

Case Document 59 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/04/2013 Page and she said, yes, you can go to a private lesson.
So I showed up that day at the that he we agreed,

and nobody from my team was there. There were a couple of

other people there, but nobody else was there. And we worked

on the tumbling run a little bit. And he asked me if I knew

And he said, I can't

what I was doing wrong, and I said no.

hear you, let-s go into the office

And so I went with him into the office there were talking. Hand

QYIH.

was above my knee. Asked me if it tickled or gave me goose

bumps, and I said no. And moved his hand up my leg. Does this

do that? I said no. I just wanted it to stop.

And then he moved his hand up more, pulled my leotard
to the side, put his hand on my vagina and asked the same

question, and I said no. And then he put his finger in my

vagina, and I said no. He must have realized that I was

getting upset because shortly after that I was off his lap.

We were out of the office. We were back onto the

I left the

floor, finished whatever practice we were doing.

and drove home with my grandma. I never said anything. I

didn-t know what to say.

I was young. I was a child. I went back to one

more time, worked on the exercises, and he didn't really talk

to me that day. He came up to me while I was on beam and he

And I

said, what's wrong? And I said, you know what's wrong.

 

 

Case Document 59 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/04/2013 Page jumped down and I left and I never, never went back. I didn't

tell my mom. I didn't tell anybody.

A couple weeks had passed and I'm at school at recess
on the playground. All of the other kids are playing like you
should be playing at 12 years old, playing ball, on the swings
and they-re doing everything you should. And I'm off to the
side crying.

And my friend came up and she said, what-s wrong? And
I told her. And she went home and told her mom and her mom
called my mom and my mom asked me, and at that point I had to
And my mom didn't want me to press

say, yes, it did happen.

charges. she said it would be too hard to go through a trial
she confronted him. He got fired.
We saw him again, same car at another gym. Her and I
went in, confronted the owner, got fired.

Didn't see him again for a couple more years. I was

at the mall one day. I don-t

He's piecing Children's ears
even know if he knew it was me, but I knew it was him. I
called, told the owner, got him fired.

Didn't see him again for a number of years. Sometimes
I thought about it, sometimes I didn't.

Driving down the highway in st. Louis one day, there-s
the same car, there's the same license plate. I was with my

friend, and I said, go, speed up, speed up, speed up. she

didn-t know what was going on. came side by side with him,