Ramsey County District Judge Diane Alshouse was clearly fed up Friday with Daniel Erik Hubbard Wilson, the former Visitation varsity tennis coach accused of criminal sexual conduct with one of his former players.
Time and again, the judge told him as he stood before her in court, he has ignored her orders not to contact the 17-year-old girl in any way.
"The court is at a loss for what to do with you. Your behavior is reprehensible," Alshouse said, before launching into a blistering admonishment of the 27-year-old coach for acting like a "sexual predator, a stalker."
When Alshouse was done, she ordered Wilson to jail — and set his bail at $1 million.
Wilson, dressed in orange jail overalls, was escorted out of the courtroom by deputies, his head bowed.
He was arrested most recently after he reportedly had been in touch with the girl by accessing her Gmail and Yahoo accounts using her passwords. Andrew Johnson, an assistant Ramsey County attorney, said the girl and Wilson would write new drafts and leave them there, without sending them. The girl's parents discovered the messages on her laptop before they were deleted, Johnson said.
Instead of the girl being able to use this time to heal, Johnson said, the continued contact with Wilson "just sends her on an incredible downward spiral."
On Friday, Wilson was formally charged for the third time with violating a harassment restraining order.