A justice acceptable bail astatine $500,000 Monday for a volleyball coach accused of sexually assaulting a teen player.
Levi Miller, 26, faces charges of intersexual battle against a kid nether 16, lewdness with a kid and kid maltreatment oregon neglect.
The Metropolitan Police Department has alleged that helium inappropriately touched the unfortunate aggregate times portion massaging her.
Besides the bail amount, which was requested by prosecutors, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Kristal Bradford ordered that Miller beryllium taxable to high-level physics monitoring, person nary interaction with children and not usage Snapchat.
The justice said she was acrophobic astir assemblage safety.
“These (claims) stay allegations astatine this point,” said defence lawyer Dowon Kang. “Mr. Miller is guiltless arsenic helium stands here.”
Deputy District Attorney Kate Groesbeck noted that if convicted, Miller faces a 25-year to beingness condemnation connected the intersexual battle count.
Miller worked arsenic facilities and operations manager for Vegas United Volleyball Club earlier his apprehension but has since been terminated.
The unfortunate is simply a precocious schoolhouse sophomore, said the prosecutor, and started to spot Miller, a trainer and carnal therapist, aft hurting her hep and knee. Miller worked to summation her family’s spot successful bid “to exploit this young girl,” Groesbeck said.
He was “continuously touching this 15-year-old miss successful a worse and worse concatenation of events,” the authoritative alleged.
Miller would massage the victim, and eventually, touched her nether her spandex and sexually assaulted her, according to the prosecutor. He besides enactment his manus astir the victim’s cervix and choked her, Groesbeck said, past texted to inquire if helium had gone excessively far.
The authoritative said Miller shifted connection with the miss to Snapchat, with the relationship acceptable up to delete messages. She indicated that helium created a caller relationship truthful the girl’s parent would not beryllium capable to admit him if she saw it.
He sent videos that showed him touching himself, Groesbeck alleged, and started to “very explicitly laic retired what helium wants to bash her successful the upcoming sessions.”
“He tells the unfortunate astatine 1 constituent that her 16th day is soon and soon, she’ll beryllium a ineligible age,” said the prosecutor. “So helium cannot assertion that helium didn’t know. He knew this miss was 15 years aged and helium continued to person a intersexual narration with her.”
Kang said it was earthy that Miller would person a narration with the girl’s household due to the fact that of their communal engagement successful volleyball.
Police said successful a quality merchandise that they are seeking further juvenile victims.
“Nobody’s travel forward,” said Kang. “They don’t person thing to enactment that.”
Of the allegations astir Snap and substance messages, helium said, “We don’t person any. They weren’t memorialized.”
According to a constabulary report, 227 pages of substance messages were preserved and a warrant is pending for Miller’s Snapchat account.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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