Cristiano Oliveira, BJJ instructor at Gracie Barra is being held in jail on charges that he raped a child.

Cristiano Oliveira is the head instructor at Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Of Yakima. The website for the gym states that Oliveira is also a 2009 Pan-American first place champion.

BJPenn.com reported that Cristiano Oliveira has reportedly confessed to the charges of Rape and Child Molestation brought before him.

Gracie Mag ran a profile on Oliveira in 2010, featuring a story about how he gave up music to pursue jiu-jitsu, which taught him to "think before he acts."

His Facebook page is filled with pictures of him with children and the Gracie Barra Northwest Kids Team lists him as not only "head instructor" at the Yakima school, but also "head youth instructor." Also, a 2012 story about Yakima police starting a jiu-jitsu program providing free lessons to kids was born out of a partnership between the police and Oliveira.

KULR-8 Television, Billings, MT

According to court documents, a 20-year-old girl recently told police an alarming history of sexual assault. She told officers she was made to engage in sexual intercourse with her martial arts instructor, Cristiano Oliveira at least 100 times between August of 2008 and October of 2010. At that time she was only 14 to 16-years-old.

She told police she felt like she'd been "broken" from the sexual encounters.

"For someone to be using their influence, their position in a way that is unfitting of that, it's a detriment to the entire community," said Dodd.

Yakima Police Detectives said they arranged a confrontation between the girl and Oliveira. Police said Oliveira confirmed the girl's stories.

The judge set Oliveira's bail at $1 million, and his passport has been confiscated so he can't escape to his home country, Brazil.