BOONE COUNTY, Ind. -- A former Boone County music teacher accused of molesting a girl has accepted a plea deal and will not go to prison for the crime.
John Olivera, 38, plead guilty to battery of a person under the age of 14 earlier this month. He was originally facing three child molestation charges as well.
Olivera was sentenced to two years of supervised probation on Wednesday. He does not have to register as a sex offender but will face similar restrictions to a sex offender.
Olivera was the lead instructor and band director at Michele’s Studio in Fishers and also worked at an urban youth ministry. He was accused of molesting the young girl several times between the summer of 2014 and the spring of 2015.
The alleged incidents happened during sleepovers unrelated to either of Olivera’s jobs.
The victim’s mother said the family agreed to the plea deal so that her daughter would not have to go through the traumatization of a trial.
“The thought of putting her through the trial and her being traumatized, we didn’t know what would be on the other side of that,” said the girls’ mother.
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