A prominent gymnastics coach has been arrested on a child pornography charge three years after being suspended from coaching.

Sean Gardner, who worked at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions, was taken into custody by the FBI last week.

The arrest came three years after Gardner was suspended from coaching at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, Iowa. Gardner moved from Mississippi to Iowa in 2018 to take the job.

In court records obtained by the Associated Press, Gardner was accused of sexually abusing at least three young gymnasts at Chow’s and secretly recording others undressing in a gym bathroom at his prior job at Jump’In Gymnastics & Tumbling in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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