Previous high-profile Melbourne gymnastics coach, Ross Bouskill, has been charged with seven child sex offences, and his lawyer, Ian Robertson, plans to defend all seven charges, according to The Guardian. Bouskill coached multiple Olympians and owned one of Melbourne’s biggest gym providers with seven locations in Victoria, Jets Gymnastics, for almost 30 years. He now manages a business consulting agency.
As a gymnastics mentor for over three decades, Bouskill trained hundreds of Victorian gymnasts. Bouskill virtually attended Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court in Melbourne.
Three of Bouskill’s charges date from between 2001 and 2005, including allegedly exposing his penis to a child, allegedly massaging a child’s pubic bone area with his hands and allegedly making a child remove her top so he could take photographs of her.
Three more charges of allegedly touching the outside of child’s vagina with his finger concerns a period between 2010 and 2011. Police also allege that he caressed a child’s leg and moved his hand upwards towards her vagina in 1995, one of seven charges spanning over 15 years.
Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The preliminary hearing is set for June.
