A 40-year-old gym instructor from Paarl was sentenced to eight and a half years for molesting young students, e-tv news reported on Wednesday. Piet Olivier was sentenced to two and a half years on each of three indecent assault charges, and one year for attempted indecent assault. His victims were boys between the ages of eight and 12. The report says Olivier admitted he had abused the first child in 1983. At the time of his arrest in March, he was molesting an 11-year-old student up to ten times a month. The magistrate said that while in prison, Olivier had to show he was committed to changing. He suggested that Olivier volunteer for the prison’s in-house sexual offenders programme. – Sapa