The sexually graphic text messages began popping up on the phone of recently retired swimmer Caroline Burckle, a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, when she was home in the Los Angeles area on a May evening in 2011.
“They were so aggressive,” Burckle said last week to the Orange County Register, which broke the story.
“I was a 24-year-old female swimmer who had retired way too young but was sick of all the (garbage),” she said. “I wanted to change lives and do different things but felt trapped.”
The texts, she said, hit her “like a whirlwind.