A former Minnesota figure skating coach was sentenced to 24 years in prison Friday for sexually abusing one of his skaters.

Thomas Incantalupo, 48, pleaded guilty in June to sexually abusing the girl for over two years, beginning in 2015 when she was 14 years old.

Incantalupo made an apology in court to his wife and the figure skating community, though the judge told him it wasn’t an affair, it was a sex crime against a child, according to KMSP-TV. He reportedly took her to hotels for sexual encounters.

“I respected my Coach, and I believed he was helping me reach my dreams,” the survivor said in an impact statement. “But Tom had different plans for me and after I spent years training, Tom turned my dreams into a nightmare. I was 14 years old when Tom took my innocence. He took what wasn’t his to take.

“He robbed years of my childhood and I will never get those years back … I was full of fear but I realized that if I stayed silent, I was never going to be free. A million pounds of weight was lifted by telling the secret. And I was so relieved that everyone who mattered to me, believed and supported me. But I’m not free.”

Incantalupo’s defense requested leniency from the court after he had pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges and agreed to a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison.

“There was no excuse for what happened,” the defense wrote in a pre-sentencing filing with the court. “Mr. Incantalupo was the victim’s skating coach of many years. But he was also teacher and mentor to hundreds of other female students. If he were a serial predator, he had the opportunity to commit many more but didn’t.”

The survivor’s attorney, Sarah Klein, promised civil action against US Figure Skating for not doing enough to protect its athletes from “monsters” like Incantalupo.