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GeneChing

11-13-2007, 08:12 PM

It seems like I'm getting more and more of these sorts of news stories, sad to say. I can't tell if I'm just hyper-sensitive or it's a growing phenomena. So I'm going to start compiling them here, just to see where it goes. I know there's some archived threads too, which could be linked in to this one. :(

Karate Instructor Accused Of Molesting Student (http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2007/11/11/karate_instructor_accused_of_molesting_student.htm l)
Monday, November 12, 2007 12:27:42 AM

A karate instructor remains locked up on charges he molested at least one of his young students.

Stephen Gressett, 20, is accused of molesting a girl under 12 years old during a class at United Tiger Martial Arts on Conroy Windermere Road.

The girl said the incident happened more than a year ago. She told police there were no adults around at the time.

Gressett denies the allegation. He's charged with lewd or lascivious molestation.

Investigators are now interviewing other students in class.

Marital Arts Instructor Accused Of Touching Female Student (http://www.wftv.com/news/14576531/detail.html)
POSTED: 5:44 pm EST November 12, 2007

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Some parents are standing by their children's martial arts instructor who was arrested over the weekend. Stephen Gressett, 20, is accused of touching one of his female students inappropriately at the United Tiger Martial Arts on Conroy Road.

The alleged incident happened at the center more than a year ago. The girl reported it to police last week. Gressett has been teaching at the center for four years. Other parents told Eyewitness News he is innocent.

"I've known Stephen. I've watched him grow as an adult and he's just become more professional," said parent Deanna Batt.

Eyewitness News tried to interview Gressett from jail, but he declined. He also refused to take a polygraph test.

Police said they are now looking into the case further to see if there are any more potential victims.

cjurakpt

11-13-2007, 08:16 PM

this story was featured locally in NY about a month ago...

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5725423

Karate instructor accused of sexual abuse may be facing more charges
Also accused of secretly videotaping his students
Eyewitness News
(Long Island-WABC, Oct. 25, 2007) - A Karate instructor on Long Island charged with sexual abuse is now being investigated for even more disturbing incidents.
Suffolk County police say James Bonfiglio, the owner of Excel Karate Academy in Ronkonkoma, may have secretly videotaped his students and had questionable relationships with as many as 10 boys.
Bonfiglio, 37 was arrested Oct. 11 after a 13-year-old male student told authorities that Bonfiglio took him to his Ronkonkoma apartment and abused him in July. He pleaded not guilty to committing a sexual act, a felony and misdemeanor sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, and was released on $60,000 bond.
The additional charges against the instructor were uncovered through the first investigation and are expected to be presented to a grand jury. Authorities say the found hidden cameras that were discovered at Bonfiglio's apartment and in the karate school's bathroom.
Also, Suffolk County police say a computer seized during the search of Bonfiglio's apartment had videos of naked boys, that may have been shot with the secret cameras.
Bonfiglio's attorney, Jerry Garguilo, said he was not aware of additional charges and had not spoken with the district attorney's office. "I cannot speak intelligently on that at this point," he said.

sanjuro_ronin

11-13-2007, 08:23 PM

Ewww....:(

lkfmdc

11-13-2007, 08:31 PM

I'm thinking of a word....

ah, yes

CAS TRA TION

sanjuro_ronin

11-13-2007, 08:32 PM

here, here !!

cjurakpt

11-13-2007, 08:46 PM

and it's right in my neighborhood as well - ick...

yutyeesam

11-13-2007, 09:00 PM

Sad? Yes. Surprising? Not really. People just released from prison can open up a MA school without any real accountability. So one would expect that there are all sorts of deviants and misfits operating schools.

Shaolinlueb

11-13-2007, 09:38 PM

I'm thinking of a word....

ah, yes

CAS TRA TION

you mean 3 words?
castration is 1 word.

cjurakpt

11-13-2007, 09:42 PM

So one would expect that there are all sorts of deviants and misfits operating schools.
and then there are the ones who also molest their students...;):p

MightyB

11-13-2007, 11:49 PM

Judo's at the forefront again. 1st they introduced the belt ranking system & a couple of years ago: http://www.usjf.com/public/background.pdf

That's just to get a Shodan. All MA instructors should have to do something similar to this regardless of style.

The B

SPJ

11-14-2007, 12:08 AM

I think there is a program that the parents may just check on the list of child molesters or sex offenders near by including the MA teachers of course.

sort of a neighbor watch!.

:eek:

GeneChing

11-14-2007, 01:20 AM

I got this one a few days ago.

11/9/2007 10:54:00 AM
Martial arts instructor to plead on federal sex charges (http://xeniagazette.1upmonitor.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=157215&TM=61083.6)
AARON KEITH HARRIS
Staff Writer

XENIA – A Miami Valley martial arts instructor is expected to plead guilty in federal court Friday morning to having a sexual relationship with an underage female student, court officials said.

Daniel P. Doyle, 31, of Spring Valley, was scheduled to plead guilty Friday afternoon to a single count of engaging in an illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, but the hearing in United States District Court was pushed back to 9 a.m. Monday, officials said.

The plea agreement with prosecutors should mean Doyle spends between 100 and 120 months in prison, officials said.

Doyle was originally charged in Greene County Common Pleas Court after being arrested in May on suspicion that he had sex with a martial arts student while on trips to competitions in several different states and foreign counties, according to court documents.

David Jamieson

11-14-2007, 01:25 AM

makes ya wonder doesn't it?

if this is only the face of it, then I don't want to know the body or root of it.

be upright, it's what you can do about it.

GeneChing

11-14-2007, 01:32 AM

...but it's not sexual, thankfully. It's just odd. You need to go to the site and see the pic to really judge.

Outrage as martial arts-obsessed teacher poses with guns in chilling internet photo (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491250&in_page_id=1770)
Last updated at 09:37am on 2nd November 2007

Comments Comments (7)
A teacher has sparked fury among parents after a chilling picture showing him holding a pair of fake handguns appeared on a popular social networking website.

English and media studies master William Cambata, 29, set up a personal page on hit website Bebo - which shows him adopting a sinister pose dressed in black, with arms crossed, each hand grasping a handgun.

As well as the disturbing picture depicting him glaring menacingly into the camera, Cambata went on to list his interests on the page, which included horror movies, martial arts and role playing games. Using strong language, he also spoke of how he made classroom bullies feel "insignificant".

The site was spotted by parents of pupils who had visited the page - and after one concerned parent wrote to the school complaining Cambata's site "glamorised violence" the shamed teacher was forced to apologise and remove his profile, although he has not been suspended.

A mother of one of Cambata's pupils, who did not want to be named, said: "My son enjoys the lessons he has with Mr Cambata but after looking at the website I was concerned. I was shocked to see him posing with guns.

"The interests he seemed to have were unusual to say the least and I think as a teacher he should be keeping his private life private. Students had been contacting him praising him for the work he has done to combat bullying, but I don't think it was appropriate to do this on a personal website."

Another furious parent wrote to the school fearing the website "glamorised violence" and could encourage pupils to take part in "mind-disturbing interests" - and added that it could encourage a school shooting such as the Columbine massacre in 1999.

Rob Williams, headteacher at Malton School, North Yorks., - where Cambata remains employed - said an internal investigation by the school, following county council disciplinary procedures, have already started, adding that the teacher had been advised not to speak about the case.

He said: "I have spoken with Mr Cambata about the matter and he has deleted his personal space on the website Bebo.

"He explained to me that the website relates to an external interest in role playing games and the picture is related to this. As a teacher posing with toy guns this illustrated poor judgement and he has apologised.

"I can categorically state that this is not another 'Columbine in the making' and if I thought for a minute that a member of staff had posed with real guns I would have called the police.

There will be an investigation into the matter following North Yorkshire County Council disciplinary procedures.

"Mr Cambata is a good teacher who encourages creativity among his students."

Twelve students and a teacher were killed at Columbine High School in America when two students went on a shooting rampage.

rogue

11-14-2007, 02:35 AM

Just another geek playing with toy weapons. The guy probably isn't much different than any other MA geek playing with Chinese or Japanese weapons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkLYYaTWoRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dUCOS1bM0

One of my friends with a school used to let parents drop their kids off at his dojo while they ran errands. He finally wised up and now makes sure a parent is on premises with their kid.

Hau Tien

11-14-2007, 02:50 AM

The guy who ran the Karate school I attended as a child was busted for molesting a couple of his female students. Went to jail, got out, moved a province over, and opened up another school where he's been since. Craziness.

1bad65

11-14-2007, 03:20 AM

One of the three local men arrested in the Flagler Beach sex sting filmed by “Dateline NBC” teaches children tae kwon do at a South Daytona martial arts school, police said.

That man, William Roach, 31, believed his female decoy “Amber” was only 13 years old, investigators said.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/predator/121906.htm

1bad65

11-14-2007, 03:28 AM

SanHeChuan

11-14-2007, 10:12 AM

Only five years probation, sounds well worth it to me.

The Willow Sword

11-14-2007, 04:07 PM

January 26, 2005
KVUE News

An arrest warrant has been issued for an Austin martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting one of his students.

Lorens San pedro, 28, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child -- a first degree felony. San pedro is accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 15-year-old girl for more than a year. Police say San pedro knew the victim since the girl was 8-years-old.""

I wonder what ever happened in this case? I knew lorenz personally, was very suprised when i discovered this.

Peace,TWS

sha0lin1

11-14-2007, 04:35 PM

I wonder what ever happened in this case? I knew lorenz personally, was very suprised when i discovered this.

Peace,TWS

I knew Lorenz too, he was a very good Martial Artist. I was very surprised as well since I had seen him with some very hot of age women. Doubly surprised to see that such a promising martial artist would throw his career away. I understand he did some time, not sure how much, but I understand that he is out now.

sanjuro_ronin

11-14-2007, 05:02 PM

Next weeks episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will be about an abusive MMA I think, for what I saw in the preview.

SIFU RON

11-15-2007, 07:54 AM

Mook Jong

11-15-2007, 08:09 AM

...but it's not sexual, thankfully. It's just odd. You need to go to the site and see the pic to really judge.

I could see where parents would be concerned about the pic but since when are horror movies, MA and RPGs "mind disturbing interests"? This reminds me of a discussion i think mr. punch brought up a while ago about violent video games.

Chosen-frozen

11-15-2007, 09:50 AM

It is one of the saddest issues going on in the world today

I teach child saftey , if what I do saves one child from being molested
( let alone killed) I will die a happy man.

I started it a few years back through an after school recreation program
for elementary kids....I now have it going through the city in their youth program...
I'll help any one , any age, anytime,

Do you know about Jesseca's Law ?

To think a M/A teacher would do this ? Who did they learn M/A from ?

This brings up another issue that has always that has always bothered me.

Standization of all M/A.

A goverment or state program to regulate , certify, and control it.

Best to U

God save the children !
I`m not sure about now, but when the Brits still controlled Hong Kong you supposedly had to be a member of your style`s "Athletic Association", which was registered with the Govt. in order to operate a martial arts school as a business.
This let your style decide who was fit to teach, but still gave some record keeping ability ty the Govt.

As bad as MA pollitics are now, imagine how much worse it would be with a government body deciding whether or not you were qualified to teach. Or regulating what you could teach. Who would decide? A beureucrat? Some MA from a different style who was appointed by the state? We have enough arguments now about who is qualified for what. As tempting as it is, Govt. involvment of any kind sounds like a bad idea to me.

But maybe crimminal background checks for senior staff wouldn`t be a bad idea to get a business liscence.

cjurakpt

11-15-2007, 01:05 PM

This brings up another issue that has always that has always bothered me. Standization of all M/A. A goverment or state program to regulate , certify, and control it. Best to U God save the children !

it's not about standardization of MA, it's about screening of individuals who are in contact with children in any sort of capacity where their parents are absent - for example, I work in schools as a PT, and aside from my own license, registration and malpractice, I need to have state clearance including fingerprinting, background check, clearance from Dept of Health, clearance from each individual district, a mandated child abuse training class, ID in the buildings, and even still I will almost never treat in a room alone with a child, and certainly never with a door closed if I am; my point is that, it seems almost ridiculous that I have to go through all this, and then parents can just drop off their kid somewhere with someone who has no background check and no real training about how to even spot abuse if they see it (let alone cause it); so again, I agree with your sentiment, I think it just needs to apply across the board to anyone who is dealing with kids (dance, gymnastics, whatever, doesn't matter, they should all be held to some sort of clearance standard)

Black Jack II

11-15-2007, 04:40 PM

it's not about standardization of MA, it's about screening of individuals who are in contact with children in any sort of capacity where their parents are absent - for example,

Bingo.

What this comes down to is PERSONAL responsibility, not any governing body.

Parents need to get off their fat, retarded assess and put in the work to help prevent this sort of occurance. Take any number of these cases and if you track its breakdown you can often see a lack of commonsense or outright dumbf@ckness coming from the kids own family.

It costs you NOTHING to run a quick pedo search on people, do it on your kids school teacher, do it on your kids karate teacher, their dance coach, your neighbors, your sister in laws new boyfriend.

It's worth the few minutes.

eomonroe00

11-15-2007, 05:18 PM

this **** is sick, as a community we should smack the **** out of these people if we ever run into them, they give us all a bad name, just like hollywood is known for liberals who wont keep their mouth shut on politics and underage kids getting trashed and crashing their cars- if this **** continues the martial arts world will be known for being kiddie rapists

BruceSteveRoy

11-15-2007, 05:50 PM

Jody Plauche' made national headlines in March
1984 when he was abducted by his karate teacher
and taken to Los Angeles, Ca. FBI officials
rescued Jody and his abductor was arrested. Upon
his karate teacher’s return to Baton Rouge, La.,
Jody’s father, Gary Plauche’, in front of a local
television camera, shot and killed the man who
kidnapped and sexually molested his son. The
sexual abuse had occurred for a period of more
than one year.

http://www.jodyplauche.com/

Clip of a CouryTV show on the case. WARNING: Site includes video of the shooting and NSFW ads.
http://www.sikvid.com/vids/2479.html

a few things i wanted to asay about this. i am not for vigilantism but in this father's position i probably would have done the same or simialr thing. the only difference is i would have shot below the waste to avoid murder/attempted murder charge. and if my aim is decent enough that shot could prevent him from abusing more kids and i would serve an agravated assault with deadly wepaon charge for that. but i am curious what sort of punishment the father got for this.

The Willow Sword

11-15-2007, 09:45 PM

a few things i wanted to asay about this. i am not for vigilantism but in this father's position i probably would have done the same or simialr thing. the only difference is i would have shot below the waste to avoid murder/attempted murder charge. and if my aim is decent enough that shot could prevent him from abusing more kids and i would serve an agravated assault with deadly wepaon charge for that. but i am curious what sort of punishment the father got for this.

Well i would have gone for the head. Its what should be done to EVERY child molester out there and every pederast who chooses to abuse an innocent child.
Its the one thing that hard liner neo cons and i can agree on.

TWS

1bad65

11-15-2007, 09:56 PM

a few things i wanted to asay about this. i am not for vigilantism but in this father's position i probably would have done the same or simialr thing. the only difference is i would have shot below the waste to avoid murder/attempted murder charge. and if my aim is decent enough that shot could prevent him from abusing more kids and i would serve an agravated assault with deadly wepaon charge for that. but i am curious what sort of punishment the father got for this.

If you shoot someone, you will be charged with attempted murder. Even if you don't aim for the head or heart, the victim could well bleed to death.

The father got probation. 5 years I believe, it was not long. It was a plea bargain. The molester's family was upset, but the prosecutor said if it had went to trial he doubted he could find a jury that would convict the father. So he offered a pretty light deal and it was accepted.

SanHeChuan

11-15-2007, 11:12 PM

BruceSteveRoy

11-15-2007, 11:18 PM

that is true but missing man parts significantly decreases sexual drive.

Lucas

11-15-2007, 11:47 PM

Dead men have neither.

Oso

11-15-2007, 11:51 PM

I just found out from my friend/mentor that there have been 5 or 6 teachers in the WNC mountains over the last 2 decades that have been caught at this. One of them, right here in town, has been caught twice in the last 5 years. We were discussing the state of martial arts in the region and he was stipulating that this is a factor in why few schools do well here.

SIFU RON

11-16-2007, 09:34 AM

Shaolin Wookie

11-17-2007, 04:06 PM

Shaolin Wookie

11-17-2007, 04:13 PM

Psych. evals should be standard for all teachers of minors. Seriously, look at what goes on in the school system. These female harpies that prey on the sexuality of pubescent boys (just as damaging as male-female); the pederasts that prey on young girls and boys. The priests that take advantage of the trust the children give them.

Why haven't we instituted mandatory psychological evaluations for all teachers entering into this line of work, dealing with children? Yes, the priests, too.

Actually, I'm editing this post: if you required psych. evals, there'd probably be no teachers to begin with (especially in Tae Kwan Do)....LOL......

GeneChing

11-27-2007, 07:29 PM

When I started this thread, I knew I'd be ttt-ing it regularly.

Martial arts teacher arrested for kicking student 200 times (http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--kickingarrest1126nov26,0,1593850.story)
By the Associated Press
November 26, 2007

SUFFOLK, Va. - A martial arts instructor has been arrested for kicking an 11-year-old student more than 200 times, causing internal injuries and possibly breaking a rib.

Police say 47-year-old Susan Bateman of Hampton was arrested November 20th and charged with one felony count of child endangerment.

Police Lieutenant D.J. George says Bateman issued a challenge November 7th during class at a Suffolk dojo to see how many kicks to the abdomen students could take. Students got into a push-up position while Bateman kicked, stopping when the student either said to or went to his or her knees.

George says the 11-year-old boy and another student took more than 200 kicks as the class counted.

The student didn't tell his parents until he needed medical attention

PeaceonEarth

11-28-2007, 08:03 AM

]He is innocent of the false allegations![/B]

jdhowland

11-28-2007, 09:49 PM

When I started this thread, I knew I'd be ttt-ing it regularly.

Good point, Gene.

Minors are vulnerable to abuse from either sex and it is not always sexually motivated. You have to watch the control freaks, as well. Even those (especially those) of us who wear badges. This reminds me of a woman corrections officer I once worked with who exulted in her ability to make life harder for tough male convicts with impunity.

As a C.O., one of the more discouraging factoids I deal with is that sexual predators who abuse children by preference are never rehabilitated. It appears to be a "hard-wired" sexual preference and is not curable.

This is an important thread for teachers. All the public exposure does make "martial arts schools" seem scary. But, as many here have pointed out, any situation in which a child has limited adult supervision is scary.

tattooedmonk

11-29-2007, 01:11 AM

Martial arts teacher arrested for kicking student 200 times
By the Associated Press
November 26, 2007

SUFFOLK, Va. - A martial arts instructor has been arrested for kicking an 11-year-old student more than 200 times, causing internal injuries and possibly breaking a rib.

Police say 47-year-old Susan Bateman of Hampton was arrested November 20th and charged with one felony count of child endangerment.

Police Lieutenant D.J. George says Bateman issued a challenge November 7th during class at a Suffolk dojo to see how many kicks to the abdomen students could take. Students got into a push-up position while Bateman kicked, stopping when the student either said to or went to his or her knees.

George says the 11-year-old boy and another student took more than 200 kicks as the class counted.

The student didn't tell his parents until he needed medical attention I just got done reading this one. Just sick

Black Jack II

11-30-2007, 05:37 PM

Check this out. Dumb****ery at its strip mall finest.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7411739

doug maverick

11-30-2007, 06:29 PM

BruceSteveRoy

11-30-2007, 06:49 PM

seriously. wtf? 11 years old!!:eek: i think they should institute an eye for an eye policy on this woman and have a person kick her in the abdomen 200+ times. but it would have to be comparable to a full grown adult kicking a child. i suggest getting a professional soccer player or NFL kicker to do it.

1bad65

11-30-2007, 07:31 PM

what kind of **** is that. she deserves to go to jail. i remember when you couldn;t arrest a martial arts instructor for things like that. actually i remember this one case of a guy killing his student by kicking him in the chest. this wasn;t that long ago like 1999-2000 maybe even 2001. and he got off scott free, parents couldn;t even sue him cause they signed a waiver

I wonder if it was just a freak accident. Like just one kick during sparring or something.

A waiver is not blanket protection. The instructors still have to take reasonable steps and use their experience and common sense to keep the students from being injured or they can be held liable.

GeneChing

11-30-2007, 08:35 PM

Go to the website, there's a nice video article.

Karate teacher erred, others say (http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-news_karate_1129nov29,0,5701763.story)
A Suffolk instructor has been charged with felony child endangerment for allegedly kicking a student 200 times.
By ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | 247-4535
November 29, 2007

When Scott Hayes first started training in karate in 1982, it wasn't unusual for his instructors to strike or land blows on their students.

"Things were a lot more rough back then," said Hayes, who now runs Scott Hayes Karate in Newport News. "If you were looking at the clock, instead of paying attention to your teacher, you would have been taken down."

But karate training has changed a lot since those days, Hayes said.

And what police say a Suffolk instructor did to one of her students — kicking him more than 200 times, causing him to need medical treatment — is not an accepted teaching technique, he and other local karate instructors say.

"It's not going to toughen them up, it's not going to improve their physical fitness," Hayes said. "Overall, I think it was bad judgment."

Susan Bateman, 47, turned herself in to Suffolk police last week after the parents of one of her students filed a complaint. She's been charged with felony child endangerment.

Police say Bateman challenged her students to see how many kicks in the rib and abdomen area they could receive before stopping. Two took over 200 kicks, and one of them, an 11-year-old boy, told his parents a week after the incident had taken place because he needed medical attention and likely has a broken rib, police said.

Bateman is an instructor at husband Jeff Bateman's School of Karate, which has studios in Hampton and Suffolk.

Several local instructors knew Jeff Bateman professionally, and said they were surprised and shocked when they heard the police account of what happened. Susan Bateman is listed in the World Karate Union Hall of Fame as 2001 Associate Instructor of the year.

The Batemans could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

People training in karate do learn sometimes how to take a blow, said Steve Pohle, who owns Shotokan Karate in Newport News. But, he said, it's a technique taught to people much older than 11.

"They don't have the muscle mass or the bone density to handle high impacts," Pohle said. "In my system, we definitely do not have contact with kids like that."

Since news of Bateman's arrest came out, some instructors say they've had to deal with nervous parents who aren't sure what they're getting their kids into by enrolling them in martial arts classes.

Clint Green, who runs Green's Martial Arts Center in Hampton, said he had one parent who had read about the case online, and wasn't sure about bringing her son back in.

"We had to tell her, no, no, no, we do not do things that way," Green said. "It'll probably be something that'll come up a few times in the near future."

Parents interested in enrolling their children in martial arts classes should be sure to watch a few classes, and talk to other parents who have children enrolled in the schools, to make sure they're being taught by reputable teachers, instructors say. And if parents aren't allowed to watch, that's a bad sign.

Police say they don't know whether parents were watching on the day the kicks occurred at Bateman's studio.

"If the instructor says they can't see, run," Pohle said. "Run, don't walk."

bodhitree

11-30-2007, 09:00 PM

opps, i thought it said 'busty teachers', wrong thread

diego

11-30-2007, 10:58 PM

"Since news of Bateman's arrest came out, some instructors say they've had to deal with nervous parents who aren't sure what they're getting their kids into by enrolling them in martial arts classes.

Clint Green, who runs Green's Martial Arts Center in Hampton, said he had one parent who had read about the case online, and wasn't sure about bringing her son back in."

that's interesting issue...it's not like back in the day where kids fought toe to toe in the 50's and you had to take up boxing...columbine shootings etc, why would a parent enroll a child in martial arts when you can just bring them to the firing range and enroll them in meditation and compassion classes so they don't abuse their weaponry...

it's like i been thinking, is there a proper way to condition your knuckles...i mean banging your knuckles on a hard surface is not normal behaviour according to any species, yet we still do it when god gave us guns so we don't have to...

Mas Judt

11-30-2007, 11:42 PM

Karate should be outlawed.

There I said it.

It just looks funny. And they get all those people to run around in Japanese underwear rubbing up against one another.

It is just wrong, I tell you. Wrong.

SIFU RON

12-01-2007, 04:50 AM

It is not in M/A alone, it's everywhere. Think this is bad, how about the teachers in regular schools ? Goona quit sending the kids to school ? Nope.

Got to deal with it, educate the children from an early age. hey parents wake up !

It is embarrashing to me , as a Sifu, to see this happen among any of us. Still don't give in, help more. Be American and get mad . The biggest problem I have seen with M/A is , it is not regulated by anyone one. How about doing a background check when someone opens a school or applys for a liscense.

Yeah ! I know, but, we have back yard mechanics right.

Sound on,

Sifu Ron

Mook Jong

12-01-2007, 05:57 AM

GeneChing

12-03-2007, 08:19 PM

What a tragedy.

Motive Sought in Stabbing At Martial Arts Academy
Police Say Man Used a Sword to Kill His Wife (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120202075.html)
By Katherine Shaver and Yolanda Woodlee
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, December 3, 2007; Page B04

Prince George's County police yesterday investigated what led a Temple Hills man to allegedly kill his wife with a sword Saturday before attempting suicide in their martial arts studio in Clinton.

The couple, identified by family and friends as Chris and Eva Smith, operated C&E Martial Arts Academy in the 7400 block of Old Alexandria Ferry Road. Eva Smith, 34, was stabbed at the academy about 2:30 p.m., police and friends said. The couple's 18-month-old daughter was there but was not injured, police said. No customers were there at the time.

Chris Smith, 40, was in critical condition yesterday at Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Smith's mother, Essie Stone, said. She said she had been told only that he remained unconscious. Police would not say how he attempted suicide.

Cpl. Arvel Lewis said police were not releasing the couple's names because the husband had not been charged. Lewis said the husband was the only suspect in the woman's death but could not be legally be arrested while he was unconscious.

Stone said her son and Eva had been married about two years and lived with their child and Eva's 12-year-old son from a previous marriage. Chris Smith also has four teenage children from a previous marriage, Stone said.

Jacques Chevalier II of Hyattsville said Smith had operated a martial arts academy in Landover and worked at another in Greenbelt. As a multi-level black belt, he was well known in local martial arts circles as "Master Chris," said Chevalier, who said he and his son took lessons from Smith from 1996 to 2003.

Chevalier said he had not been to C&E academy but that martial arts students often used blunt swords in class. Academies keep sharper swords as decoration, he added.

"I know he loved his children and his families, and he's trained so many people over the years," Chevalier said of Smith. "It seems way, way out of character for him."

Stone said she can't believe her son would have stabbed his wife intentionally.

"He told me he had found the woman of his life, his love," Stone said. "I thought they had a perfect marriage, but you never know with any couple."

Eva Smith's parents declined an interview.

The academy was closed yesterday. Someone had left fading pink roses on a white Toyota Forerunner parked out front, and wildflowers had been placed at the front door.

No one answered at the couple's small brick ranch house in the 2500 block of Easton Street in the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood.

Two people who worked with Smith at Life Stride Inc., a District company that provides services for the disabled, said they were surprised to hear of the incident.

Shirley Johnson said she remembered him as jovial and hard-working when they worked together from 1999 until 2003.

"He didn't strike me to be that type of person," Johnson said. "He joked with everybody. He got along with everyone."

GeneChing

12-04-2007, 08:24 PM

I confess. I'm really getting into this thread. I get all these newsfeeds and they make an interesting barometer when complied in one place over time. I'm also linking one that I gave its own thread today here for archival purposes since it's quite relevant. Counte Dante (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=823521)

A Bouncer Tells Jurors Assassins Framed Him (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/nyregion/04bouncer.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin)
By MICHAEL BRICK
Published: December 4, 2007

On trial for three killings connected to a strip parlor in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a bouncer told jurors yesterday that he was being framed by a squad of police assassins acting on orders from a corrupt detective who was out to shake down the bouncer’s private security business while his martial arts students conducted countersurveillance black ops against the Police Department.

Stephen Sakai, on trial for three murders in Brooklyn.

He vowed to prove this just as soon as his mother arrived at the courthouse with a secret notebook of evidence.

Then it turned out his mother was already sitting in the courtroom. She was wearing a floppy brown hat. She did not seem to have a notebook, secret or otherwise.

“He didn’t recognize the hat,” called out the bouncer’s mother, Carmen Troutman, explaining her son’s oversight and not much else.

The bouncer, Stephen Sakai, 32, fixed his gaze on the middle distance. If vexed by this turn, he was undeterred.

The trial will not be Mr. Sakai’s last. He was arrested last year on charges of firing into a crowd of Chelsea nightclub patrons, killing one and injuring three. That case awaits trial.

In Brooklyn, prosecutors have charged Mr. Sakai with murdering three men associated with the Sweet Cherry, a nightclub where he worked. The victims were a disc jockey, a sometime patron and a security coordinator.

On the strength of forensic evidence, signed confessions and documents taken from Mr. Sakai’s apartment, prosecutors rested their case yesterday. A defense lawyer, Kleon C. Andreadis, stood and told the judge he had told Mr. Sakai the consequences of opening himself to cross-examination.

Dressed in a dark suit, his head shaved bald, Mr. Sakai was led to the witness stand.

In his opening statement last month, Mr. Andreadis admonished the jurors to keep their minds open.

Mr. Sakai, who was born and raised in Queens as Stephen Sanders before legally changing his name in 1998, spoke in an accent that recalled Mr. Sulu of “Star Trek” and that seemed to come and go as his pace accelerated. He told of studying martial arts overseas and of training one of the victims, Wayne Tyson, 56.

At Mr. Tyson’s apartment in Brooklyn, he said, they had taken turns pounding buckets of gravel for hours on end to develop calloused knuckles. Those sessions, he said, explained why his blood was later found in the apartment.

Then his lawyer asked about signed confessions. Mr. Sakai said the detectives had taken his glasses, had obscured the text of the written statements and had threatened his family.

One of the detectives, Mr. Sakai said, had been following him for weeks before his arrest, seeking work in his private security practice.

In response to the harassment, Mr. Sakai said, he had sent another victim in the case, Irving Matos, 42, to spy on the police. A third victim, Edwin Mojica, 41, had been a target of extortion by the same officers, Mr. Sakai claimed.

Anything to add? Mr. Andreadis asked him.

“These two people died because they supported me in collecting evidence against a dirty cop,” Mr. Sakai said. He told the jury he had taken notes of his meetings with the police, leaving a copy in the open for investigators to find and hiding a second.

“When they think they have everything,” Mr. Sakai said, “they get ****y.”

A prosecutor, Timothy G. Gough, regarded Mr. Sakai quizzically. By way of opening, he asked a few questions “just so that we’re all reasonably on the same page here.”

Asked about his adopted name, Mr. Sakai said he had taken it “as an honor toward my family members.”

Moving right along, Mr. Gough asked: “You don’t have a passport. How did you go overseas?”

By private jet, Mr. Sakai said, courtesy of a businessman who trains young fighters. He told of competing in Cambodia and Vietnam, most recently in the five months before his arrest.

Then Mr. Gough asked about the secret journal.

“The journal that I have was given to a friend,” Mr. Sakai said, “and it’s on its way here.”

“Really?” Mr. Gough asked.

Actually, Mr. Sakai said, his mother was bringing the journal to court.

“Isn’t she in the courtroom?” Mr. Gough asked.

Mr. Sakai said she was not. Mr. Gough pointed out Ms. Troutman in the gallery.

From her position by the center aisle, Ms. Troutman spoke up in a clear, unaccented voice.

“It’s a new hat,” she said.

From the witness stand, Mr. Sakai accused his lawyer of taking part in a conspiracy against him. Justice John P. Walsh, who is presiding over the trial in State Supreme Court, called the lawyers out for a private conference. Mr. Sakai gazed off. The jurors stared down at their feet. Several minutes passed.

Later, Mr. Sakai was asked to explain the martial arts skills listed on his résumé, including ninjitsu.

Mr. Gough asked whether he meant ninjitsu as in ninja training to become an assassin.

“Yes and no,” Mr. Sakai said. “Upon the training of the ninja, you have to be more, how can I say, more in tune with yourself. More in tune with yourself.”

Three Harmonies

12-04-2007, 11:13 PM

This is a problem worldwide that has no easy fix. We can screen all we want, but first time offenders will slip by, so thats not a solution. I agree education and awareness are key attributes all people need, let alone children.
As for killing/castration etc. Tough call. The overwhelming majority of sex offenders had it done to them as children. Technially it is an illness then. Do we want to start killing people with mental issues? Probably not. But this BS of slapping them on the wrist with 3-5 years is insane when we have people doing 20-life for a bag of pot!
Our priorities in this country are very mixed when it comes to the judicial system. It does seem to be happening more regularily, but it has always happened (let us CMA-ists not forget the Bracy issue's back in the day!). I think there is more media attention, plus we are seeing a surge of "false" claims by girls/parents wanting revenge on certain individuals! Read something the other week that said something like 80% of the reported rape's are bogus! Now I understand that is not just children, but there have been lots of cases similar to this as well.
So what is the solution? I think we really need to look at the problem, and what I am about to write has not been brought up......

We are overpopulated on earth. Period. Too many people. Not enough space/resources. This causes angst, mental hysteria, breakdown of society and it's morals! Same thing happens in the animal kingdom, hence why the checks and balances are crucial.
I used to work for one of the worlds premier Herpetologists, and he told me of a story back in the 50's where at the Philidelphia Zoo they did an experiment where they put 2 mice in a cube (I want to say it was 9 ft cubed but don't hold me to it), and just let them be. Of course they bred like it was going out of style (thats what mice do) and within no time they had a butt load of mice in the cube. For a period they all got along fine. But once the population reached a certain density the scientists observed that the mice started to actually just kill other mice because of the competition for food, sex, etc. How is this different than earth?
It is time as "superior beings" that humans take a long, cold, hard look at the realities of the situation. We cannot continue to breed like nobody's business! It is crazy up here in Seattle where there is lots of money, women have 3-4 children running all over the place. People are not disciplining there kids. They are not raising them properly, and we are progressivley becoming a more selfish, arrogant society that has no checks on procreation.
I may be over simplifying things, but I stand firm in my opinion that we need to start checking ourselves when it comes to population. Not only because of the sex offender issues, but alos think of water, food, and health care!

My 2 cents,
Jake :cool:

Dale Dugas

12-04-2007, 11:19 PM

ban guns and bring back the kwan daos...

Then we could seperate the wheat from the chafe

Mas Judt

12-05-2007, 12:46 AM

Your a Nazi Charlie Brown, er Jake.

The families around me have several kids each, are devoted to raising good kids and the kids are great little people. Maybe you just live around sh!tty people.

Lucas

12-05-2007, 01:39 AM

Be American and get mad.

Thats so quote worthy

Three Harmonies

12-05-2007, 02:03 AM

Mas
Easy with the nazi talk brother;)! Perhaps (don't get me started on the Seattlites ;)). I make a general statement, but I will be honest....people are not raising their kids like 15-20 years ago when I was a wee one! That is fact. I truly believe that the midwest people are MUCH more laid back and wholesome than other places. People certainly do a better job in the midwest IMO.
Jake

Black Jack II

12-05-2007, 02:19 AM

We are overpopulated on earth. Period.

Wrong. Just because you say it with the word period in the sentance does not make it ring true.

Claiming that the world is dangerously overpopulated was false when it was first postulated back in the 19th century and it is still remains a false theory now, despite the fad behind it, a fad btw driven into the mainstream by the Population Bomb, which was published in the 60's and the United Nations Population Fund.

Too many people. Not enough space/resources. This causes angst, mental hysteria, breakdown of society and it's morals! Same thing happens in the animal kingdom, hence why the checks and balances are crucial.

By checks and balances most people who bring this up either mean eugenics or what is now staged as reproductive rights. Call it what you will but thinking that having too many people in the world is the inevitable cause of our maladies, some of them being starvation and war is just crappy wrapped up Malthusianism, who never understood modern farming methods.

It is time as "superior beings" that humans take a long, cold, hard look at the realities of the situation. We cannot continue to breed like nobody's business!

We are superior beings, we need to f@ck our heads off, make more superior beings, and populate the entire unknown universe.

I may be over simplifying things, but I stand firm in my opinion that we need to start checking ourselves when it comes to population.

Lets read between the lines, your talking about government coercion, eugenics, forced sterlization, population control, UNFPA Chinese government forced abortion garbage.

All utter garbage.

Black Jack II

12-05-2007, 02:20 AM

Though, as a side note, I do agree, a lot of parents now need to get their act together for the most part.

But there are still a TON of amazing parents out in the world, way more than bad though.

Lucas

12-05-2007, 02:28 AM

Though, as a side note, I do agree, a lot of parents now need to get their act together for the most part.

But there are still a TON of amazing parents out in the world, way more than bad though.

I'll agree with that. On a day to day basis, I see many more good parental interaction than bad. Maybe its my town, but I think its just the simple fact we have way more people, so there is more dirt visible than there may have been in the past.

Mas Judt

12-05-2007, 02:32 AM

oh there are plenty of idiots here too...

GeneChing

12-11-2007, 09:11 PM

I wonder at the details of the circumstances here...

Campbell River man hurt sparring with martial arts teacher wins damages
(http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hWqoBBeJ8MEkD1N1H-1ecawv3W5A)
VANCOUVER - A man who sued his martial arts teacher after his knee was injured while the teacher was demonstrating a move has been awarded damages of more than $155,000 in B.C. Supreme Court.

Court was told that Robert Parker of Campbell River suffered a ligament tear and damage to the cartilage of his right knee as a result of pressure applied by Jodey Ingalls on Jan. 23, 2003.

Parker said he heard his knee pop, rip and tear, suffered excruciating pain and blacked out for 20 to 30 seconds.

Parker eventually had surgery on the knee, in May 2004, but his knee is still stiff in the morning and he limps for the first couple of steps he take.

Court was told he can't ski or do martial arts, play baseball or ride his bike off-road, has gained 30 pounds since the injury and continues to take pain and anti-inflammatory medication.

He's also unable to work on his house or trade work with his friends and his ability to help with chores around the house is reduced.

GeneChing

12-13-2007, 07:56 PM

It might not be a 'teacher' either, but since they did investigate some teachers, I thought this would sit better on this thread than say, a ninja thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35945).

Ninja Hunt (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/12/10/071210ta_talk_mcgrath)
by Ben McGrath December 10, 2007

In retrospect, it figures that a serial “ninja burglar” would turn up on Staten Island, a borough whose biggest cultural export, the Wu-Tang Clan, long ago nicknamed the place Shaolin, in honor of kung-fu movies. This particular bandit, who is now thought to have robbed eighteen homes on the island in the past seven months, acquired his honorific in September, when he encountered a Dongan Hills resident named Phil Chiolo while raiding Chiolo’s home. He was dressed all in black, with a black face mask, Chiolo said, and he carried nun-chucks, which he used to club Chiolo in the chest, head, and shins before Chiolo was able to retaliate by stabbing at him with a steak knife.

Chiolo, who suffered a welt near his collarbone, said the other day that he is fine, but Staten Island has since gone ninja mad, with the burglar enjoying a kind of romantic outlaw notoriety. Other victims have likened him to a gazelle or a cat (“very athletic, very quiet, and very fast”), capable of scaling walls and leaping noiselessly out windows. (No one has heard him speak.) The “word on the street,” according to a Staten Island Advance editorial, was that ninja costumes were going to be an especially popular Halloween choice around the borough this year, and several weeks ago a local home-security company incorporated an image of a rappelling ninja in its print ads. The Post’s police blotter, last month, included a small item about a man who, after allegedly attempting to flood his landlord’s apartment, exclaimed to the cops, “I know who the ninja is.” If he knew, apparently he didn’t tell, because recently the ninja burglar struck again—twice in one night, escaping with a hundred and thirty thousand dollars’ worth of loot. “Now he’s the famous ninja who’s disturbing our peace,” Dr. Mohammad Khalid, a dentist from Pakistan who lives in Todt Hill, said last week, while standing under some trees near the scene of the latest break-ins. “He looks like a really professional robber that does not leave any marks or anything.”

The N.Y.P.D. has assigned a task force to the ninja caper, and its officers, according to the Advance, have resorted to asking strangers point blank, “Are you the ninja burglar?” Dr. Khalid, who serves as the president of the Iron Hills Civic Association, could be called the primary civilian combatant. For the past two months, he has employed a supplementary private security detail for the organization’s membership, which includes six hundred homes, and it seemed no accident, he thought, that this latest spree occurred just a block outside the prescribed range of his surveillance crew.

It was Wednesday, which, as some amateur profilers have noted, is the ninja burglar’s favorite night, but no one would have mistaken Khalid for a ninja as he stood gazing at neighboring windows in the dark. Khalid is rotund and deliberate. He wore a suit and tie, and was on his way to meet with another civic association to discuss expanding the surveillance range. “Yesterday at my own home, which is about half a mile from here, my garage was open, because somebody came to fix my computer printer,” he said. “He opened the garage and went down to the basement to get some cables. Five police guys came in and they grabbed him: ‘What are you doing here?’ He said, ‘I’m fixing the doctor’s computer.’ ” Khalid smiled. He believes the ninja’s days are numbered.

On Thursday, as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly prepared to address a gathering of concerned Staten Islanders on the East Shore, a group of ninjas in training at the Island Martial Arts Academy demonstrated considerably greater courtesy than their renegade cousin. Instead of breaking and entering, they bowed before a doorway and spoke Korean salutations. None of them appeared to have stab wounds, although many were quite proficient with nun-chucks, given their age (five to nine, which distinguishes them from the academy’s peewee ninjas, who are three to five). Some held pieces of plywood with their names written on them. It was board-breaking week.

The academy’s master, Pete Paramithis, was careful to point out that all his nun-chucks are made of foam, and he expressed concern that the ninja burglar was giving karate a bad name. Representatives of the N.Y.P.D. had already dropped by, looking for leads. Paramithis had a theory that the burglar, if he had any training at all, might be the product of an older, more punitive approach to martial-arts instruction, involving pushups, as opposed to the positive reinforcement that he favors. “Negative training creates little monsters,” Paramithis said. “It’s just like ‘The Karate Kid.’ You’ve got the good guy, and the guy who’s, like, ‘Kill, kill!’ ” Paramithis teaches concepts like “bully awareness” and “stranger danger.” He picked up a pen and wrote “Codes of Ninja” on a sheet of paper, above the words “concentration,” “courage,” “confidence,” “perseverance,” and “discipline.”

Meanwhile, at the Shaolin Kung Fu Temple, near the North Shore, Sifu Paula Wong, an instructor, seemed unaware of the burglar and his legend. “We’re not familiar with the ninja, since a ninja is an assassin,” she said. “Our training is more philosophy, with Buddhism and philosophies like Bruce Lee.”

Lucas

12-13-2007, 08:10 PM

It was bound to happen.

I'm just glad someone else got to it before I was forced to bring the Ninja back in style!

BM2

12-14-2007, 07:14 PM

If you shoot someone, you will be charged with attempted murder. Even if you don't aim for the head or heart, the victim could well bleed to death.

The father got probation. 5 years I believe, it was not long. It was a plea bargain. The molester's family was upset, but the prosecutor said if it had went to trial he doubted he could find a jury that would convict the father. So he offered a pretty light deal and it was accepted.

Man, I couldn't believe it when they showed it on the TV. Someone killing someone.
He did have a good plan. He acted as if he was talking on a pay phone at the airport when the cops were escorting the soon to be dead molestor past him. The father turns as if to look what was going on with all the TV cameras etc. and turns back away then times it as the soon to be dead molestor walks by and he puts a gun point blank to his head and drops him.
It should be pointed out that the repeat child molestor also had a smirk on his face with all the attention he was getting. He never even saw it coming from what I can recall.
Just as what was quoted, the prosecutor doubted anyone would convict him and offered , maybe 5 years?, probation to the father.
Oh, I don't think the molester was a repeat offender after that.:D

GeneChing

12-14-2007, 10:05 PM

Given Dillon's take on what happened, this one sounds trumped up to me. If I was approached by a prostitute, I might come back with a similar smartalecky remark. Of course, there's no way to know what really happened, but a snappy comeback is not grounds for being busted like this in my mind.

Friday December 14, 2007
Man keeps teaching kids karate, despite prostitution sting (http://www.dailymail.com/News/200712140435)
Karate teacher caught in prostitution sting apologizes to parents
by Jacob Messer
The Coal Valley News

MADISON - Three months have passed since Greg Dillon made the dumbest decision of his life.

It was Sept. 26, the night Dillon, 45, of Cross Lanes, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of solicitation, according to Kanawha County Magistrate Court documents.

Kanawha County Sheriff's Department employees were conducting a prostitution investigation in Jefferson and the neighboring communities, an area that is known as "The Badlands" because it is home to a slew of strip clubs and adult establishments.

Deputy S.D. Ferrell came in contact with Dillon during the investigation, according to an incident report filed by Detective R.A. Lane.

While speaking with the female deputy, Dillon offered Ferrell $30 to $40 for sex, according to the report. Once the offer for the sexual act was made, other department members arrested him.

"I'm guilty of what happened," Dillon told the Coal Valley News. "You make stupid mistakes and you pay for it."

Dillon thought his controversial arrest would destroy his pet project, a twice-a-week karate class called Danville Defensive Arts.

Although it cost him between 10 and 15 students, whose parents removed them from his class, Dillon still has about 35 students.

"Most of them decided to stay," said Dillon, a divorced father of two.

"There are a lot of good people in Madison and Boone County. They have been very forgiving and very loyal.

"From the beginning, it was very humiliating and I was very remorseful. I weathered the storm. It made me a better person."

Dillon, a Scott High School graduate who originally is from Hewett, said the incident was a misunderstanding.

"I didn't have my pants around my ankles," said Dillon, who claims his judgment was impaired because he drank a margarita at The Tomahawk's Smokehouse and Saloon that night.

"I just said and did something very stupid."

Dillon defended himself in a letter he distributed to his students' parents on Oct. 11.

"It is true," he wrote.

"I was arrested for this. I was coming out of a restaurant/bar when a woman flagged me down. I asked if she was broken down. She said she was stranded from South Carolina.

"I asked if she needed help and, in response, she said she would give me oral sex for $30. I then smartallecky asked her what she would do for $40. I thought it was funny.

"She walked away. I thought nothing of it and pulled out into traffic to go home. Three Kanawha County Sheriff's (Department) deputy cars pulled me over and arrested me. I spent the night in jail, not getting out until 8:30 a.m. the next day.

"That is pretty much all there was to it. It was a lapse in judgment to say those things to the police woman. But I do not consort with hookers/prostitutes, and I am not some pimp or peddler of flesh, nor am I a sex offender or anything that implies."

A group of parents confronted Dillon in the wake of his arrest. He answered their questions and addressed their concerns.

That wasn't good enough for some, who promptly removed their children from his class. Others, however, were satisfied.

Take Rhea Maynard, for example. She decided not to remove her granddaughter, Scott High School sop****re Breianna Maynard.

"People's private lives are their private lives," Rhea Maynard said.

"He has never done anything with any of the kids. The parents sit right there. They know nothing wrong is happening.

"Maybe he tried to pick up the woman like they said or maybe he had a drink and had a smart aleck comeback for her like he said," she added.

"I don't know, and I don't care. That's his private life. I hold nothing against him and I trust him with my granddaughter."

Breianna Maynard said she enjoys the class so much she gave up cheerleading to concentrate on karate.

"I had been cheering since I was 3 years old," she said. "I gave it up after 12 years because I fell in love with this. It is so much fun. He teaches you so much.

"It builds your confidence and self esteem. There isn't a man in the house since my grandfather died, but I'm not afraid anymore. I feel safe and secure because I know I can defend myself."

Some of the parents who removed their children from his class questioned Dillon's credibility.

Those parents declined on-the-record interview requests, however.

"I'm not the greatest martial artist, but I can teach it," said Dillon, who claims he has participated in karate since 1984.

"I'm not going to make any of my students a superman. I'm going to make them a better man. I'm not just teaching martial arts; I'm also teaching personal development."

According to certificates that are displayed inside the building that houses his class, Dillon received his first black belt in 1995, through Sei-Bu-Kan, and his second black belt in 1997, through Zentokukai.

"This is my second stint as a teacher," said Dillon, who opened Danville Defensive Arts in February.

"The first time, I taught about a dozen students out of my house. That went on for a few years."

Dillon received his Karate-Do Zentokukai Dojo Charter in 2000, through the Okinawa Shorinji-Ryu.

Dillon has the support of Kippy Robinson, who has two grandchildren enrolled at Danville Defensive Arts.

"This is a good thing for these kids," Robinson said.

Jennie Thompson agreed.

"He is a good guy," said Thompson, who takes the class along with her son. "He is great with the kids."

Dillon said he offers his classes on Monday evenings (5:30 to 6 for ages 5 to 7; 6:15 to 7 for ages 8 to 12 and 7 to 8:30 for ages 13 and older) and Saturday mornings (10 to 10:30 for ages 5 to 7; 10:45 to 11:30 for ages 8 to 12 and 11:30 to 12:30 for ages 13 and older).

Classes are located at 271 Main Street, which formerly was home to Mac's Kawasaki Cycle and Supply. Dillon said he moved the classes from the Danville Community Center in June to have more space.

Cost is $65 for all disciplines or $40 for karate only, he said.

"We can work out something moneywise," said Dillon, who thanked Bill Cook and Lauren McNeely for their support before, during and after his arrest.

"It is great to get paid for this service, but I'm not in it to get rich.

"It's more important that these people train. For some of my students, this is the only physical activity they get."

lkfmdc

12-14-2007, 10:10 PM

If that is how it went down, wouldn't it be entrapment?

sanjuro_ronin

12-14-2007, 10:14 PM

If that is how it went down, wouldn't it be entrapment?

Well, you can't be arrest for solicitation of the "hooker" in question is the one doing the offering.

hskwarrior

12-14-2007, 10:24 PM

thats what i thought. if she offered first to give HIM oral sex for 30 bucks, sheet, i'dda took it too!!!! nah not really.

but i might have had the same type of come back as he had.

i'd support him after that too.

GeneChing

12-17-2007, 08:26 PM

A 76-year-old man?

Gracie family fighter arrested for mugging (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/15/content_7253445.htm)
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-15 09:29:59

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Mixed martial arts fighter Ryan Gracie was arrested on Friday for mugging and hitting a 76-year-old man in the city of Sao Paulo, according to the local press.

The athlete is a member of the Gracie family, which got internationally famous for developing the so-called Brazilian jiu jitsu.

The 33 year-old fighter allegedly attacked the retired man, who lived in a building next to his own, in the Itaim Bibi district, Sao Paulo's south zone. After injuring the victim's left hand with a kitchen knife, Gracie stole his car, informed the police.

While driving, he crashed into a phone booth and ended up hitting the vehicle against a road rail. Gracie left the car behind and tried to steal a van, but the driver managed to get rid of him.

After that, stated the police, he used the knife to try to steal a motorcycle from a courier, who hit his helmet on the fighter's head, while other bikers came to offer help. They held him and called the police.

The chief of the precinct where Gracie was taken stated that he will undergo tests to identify the presence of any drug in his organism. In 2000, he was arrested for stabbing a person in a fight in a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro.

The Gracies are also the founders of mixed martial arts tournaments, which started when the family's fighters defied fighters of other martial arts to prove the efficiency of their jiu jitsu, adapted from the original Japanese jiu jitsu. In order to include all the different styles, the challenges had no rules.

GeneChing

12-17-2007, 10:42 PM

I didn't quite get the whole story above - see RIP Ryan Gracie (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=827770)

GeneChing

12-21-2007, 07:28 PM

This thread never drops off the main forum for long, does it?
Karate coach jailed for voyeurism (http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2007/12/21/karate-coach-jailed-for-voyeurism-84229-20276822/)
Dec 21 2007 by Andy Passant, Evening Gazette

A KARATE instructor who breached his position of trust by spying on a naked schoolgirl pupil is behind bars this Christmas.

Martial arts teacher Andrew Finn, 52, watched as the youngster stripped and washed herself, a court heard.

The girl, who was aged under 13, was a pupil at a Teesside karate club run by Finn.

Yesterday Finn was jailed for six months at Teesside Crown Court.

Finn, of Tebay Close, Ormesby, had previously admitted charges of voyeurism and common assault.

Judge Peter Armstrong told Finn he gave him “substantial credit” for his guilty pleas.

But the judge added: “That seems to me to be the only mitigation in this case.”

He said Finn had been in a position of trust. “You breached that trust. That is in my view an aggravating feature.”

Finn was made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for five years. Under the terms of the order he is banned from having any unsupervised contact with children under 18.

Finn was placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.

Sarah Mallett, prosecuting, said the complainant had been one of Finn’s pupils at a karate club he ran on Teesside.

The voyeurism charge related to an incident at the club after a training session. Miss Mallett said Finn had stood and watched the girl while she stripped and washed herself down.

The girl later mentioned the incident to her mum, who was shocked and called the police.

The common assault related to a separate incident involving the same girl.

On that occasion she had got undressed and was washing herself.

Finn applied some body lotion, touching her while she was still naked, said Miss Mallett.

Robin Denny, mitigating, said his main mitigation was his guilty pleas.

This had spared the complainant the ordeal of having to give evidence in court, said Mr Denny.

Today the girl’s parents said they were glad Finn had been jailed.

Her dad told the Gazette: “I am pleased he got sent down. We did know it wasn’t going to be a high sentence.

“He could have got 15 years, that still wouldn’t have been long enough.

“We can move on with our lives now.”

The dad, who attended his father’s funeral on the same day as the previous court hearing, said they had “been through hell”.

The girl’s mum said: “She is still having nightmares. She thinks he is going to come and get her. She checks the doors every night.”

She said they were shocked when their daughter told them what had happened. “You put your trust in somebody who you think is okay to work with children.”

Their daughter is still doing karate but is now at a different club.

Detective Inspector Jason ****son said: “I am just pleased that it is over for the family.

“Because of his obstruction this whole process has been drawn out.”

DC Angela Turnbull added: “It will open people’s eyes to the sort of person he is and protect other children in the future.”

Seppukku

12-22-2007, 04:12 PM

A 76-year-old man?

It's not surprising. Brazilian JiuJitsu is the end result of an acid trip that a teenager had in Rio de Janiero in 1962. Yeah, they say they learned it from a ninja from Japan a really long time ago, but really, are you going to trust some acid-tripping nuthuggers talking about ninjas? Really, this just demonstrates the lack of moral standards inherent in the study of BJJ and MMA at large. The Gracies are really some degenerate guys. Take this story I'm quoting from Ken Shamrock's critical essay on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, "The Sermon on 'The Mount'" written in 1998:

So I was talking with Royce Gracie about the fact that it takes a lot of cahones to step into the ring "toe-to-toe", knock someone down and go "cahone-to-cahone", and then try your best to mount him and beat him to a bloody pulp. And Royce, typical of his irreverent nature, said: "There but for the Gracie of God go I." This threw me off. I wanted to punch his sister in her eye for that. REally? I mean, come on hombre. He was saying that Gracie's were in communion with God, like they were his saving grace, and not Jesus like our pastors tell us every Sunday when we go to Sunday school. (Or Mohammed, because there are a lot of Mussalmen out there and I don't want to Elian-nate my audience, or at least my editor says so).

So then Royce shrugs it off and does another hit of acid off of his brother's bicep. He looks at me and says: "Ken, shklajkalksjddrk. You look like you just......pink pandas are delicious....dklsjakssldjfddrk." By then I knew he was done. I left him in the hallway doing acid off of the toilet seat, because the Gracies actually crap in the hallways. Little known fact.

There was this one time after his fight with a Taekwondo guy that Gracie took his crap (in the hallway of course), and then looked at the Taekwondo guy and said: "You are like my poop. Stinky." He then dropped some acid and added: "And delicious."

I never really understood what he meant, because it was pretty odd. Why would he be eating fecal matter? Or Taekwondo. There was this one time I accidentally walked into his locker room and saw him in front of a computer screen watching a porno movie. He was doing this weird thing with his hand, and I think he was rubbing acid on his dong. He kept chanting: "It's the technique. It's the technique. It's the technique" But, then, he was doing a lot of acid back then, and even Ozzy Ozbourne said some weird stuff now and then, and he'd taken a lot of acid back then, too.

That reminds me of the time I took Royce to an Ozzy Ozbourne "Black Sabbath Reunion" concert, but that's another story, and it wound up with Royce onstage doing acid off of of Dio's guitar pick and mounting a headless bat. It was really weird, but then, most acid trippers are kind of weird.

It's a really good read. I recommend it. This isn't the best passage, and Ken's really an excellent writer, with shades of Henry James, but this passage does show how the Gracies are pretty shady people, and think they're gods in gis.

RickMatz

12-29-2007, 06:22 PM

After having a teen ages student sign an "oath of obidieance" he rapes her. "It's part of the test."

http://www.wnbc.com/news/14937603/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

Three Harmonies

12-29-2007, 06:41 PM

And many of you out there tell your kids they can trust cops:eek::(
Sad.

Flying-Monkey

01-01-2008, 06:44 PM

And many of you out there tell your kids they can trust cops:eek::(
Sad.

which TSPK guy did you cross hands ?

hskwarrior

01-01-2008, 07:08 PM

http://irontiger-martialarts.com/

GeneChing

01-03-2008, 09:22 PM

The comments following the online article are of interest...
NYPD officer's rape case to head to grand jury (http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/NEWS/801030312/-1/NEWS)
By Heather Yakin
Times Herald-Record
January 03, 2008

MIDDLETOWN — Prosecutors say they'll take the rape case against a New York City police officer to a grand jury.

Trent Young, 39, of Middletown, a nine-year veteran of the New York Police Department, was arrested last week on felony rape charges based on complaints made by two teenage girls who took martial arts classes through Young's Iron Tiger Martial Arts school.

Young was in Middletown City Court yesterday morning for a follow-up appearance in the case. The assistant district attorney said prosecutors will take the case to grand jury within the next month.

One girl told police Young ordered her to strip after she earned her green belt and had signed an oath of loyalty and obedience to him and the school, and that he later pushed her into a sexual relationship. Police say sexual encounters happened at Iron Tiger's West Milford, N.J., school and at the basement dojo in Young's Middletown home. The other girl said she refused Young's order for her to strip after she earned her green belt, police say.

Young is free on $25,000 bail. Middletown police say he also might face New Jersey charges.

His lawyer, Gary Greenwald, says if New Jersey lodges a warrant, Young will turn himself in to West Milford police. Greenwald noted a crowd of a dozen or so that came to court with Young, including some martial arts students.

"He will be actively contesting these charges," Greenwald says. "Essentially, it will be her word against his. When he has his day in court, I think the view of him will be substantially different."

GeneChing

01-03-2008, 09:26 PM

One of the intrinsic problems with martial arts teachers is that there is no certification standards. With certification standards, one would think an ethics course would be a minimal requirement. However our economy isn't strong enough yet to establish any sort of nationally governing body for instructors.

Martial Arts Instructor Charged With Statutory Rape (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2245893/)
Joseph Gailes
Posted: Today at 12:11 a.m.
Updated: Today at 7:23 a.m.

Fuquay-Varina — A fired martial arts instructor in Wake County faces charges that he had an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Investigators said tae-kwon-do teacher Joseph Gailes is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

A search warrant detailed an alleged relationship between the 31-year-old instructor and a student, including a sexual encounter in a hotel room during a Durham martial arts tournament in September of last year.

"It's like finding out there's a potential predator in your family. I've known him for almost 10 years,” said Michael Wegmann, master instructor at Vision Martial Arts.

According to the search warrant, the girl said Gailes bought her gifts throughout their relationship that included underwear from Victoria's Secret. The warrant also stated that Gailes bought underwear for another juvenile student.

“It's kind of like being a school teacher, occasionally you will find a bad one out of a thousand,” Wegmann said.

Gailes had been an instructor at Vision Martial Arts in Fuquay Varina for seven years. The popular instructor was suspended after allegations surfaced that he was having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Parents received a letter about Gailes termination after an investigation was launched last February. He has since been charged with three counts of statutory rape.

Parents at Vision Martial Arts declined to comment Wednesday night.

“Some at first did not believe the allegations. Some are taking it far more seriously these days, since he's been arrested,” Wegmann said.

Gailes was being held in the Wake County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Dale Dugas

01-03-2008, 09:30 PM

Having a national board would be great, but then we would not have all these fakes, frauds and phonies with all their bs fu and crap-a- te to laugh at and show the world.

I agree on the ethics, both business and personal should be taught.

xcakid

01-03-2008, 10:43 PM

That's funny. Not the same one, since I'm in TX. However, there's a Vision Martial Arts about 3miles from my house. I wonder if they are affiliated.

GeneChing

01-04-2008, 07:37 PM

Speaking of ethics....

Brooklyn Bouncer Gets 50 Years to Life for 2 Murders (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/nyregion/04bouncer.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin)
By ANDY NEWMAN
Published: January 4, 2008

A Brooklyn strip club bouncer and martial arts enthusiast who had said he was framed by police assassins was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison on Thursday for the murders of two men in 2005.

Zoraida Cook after giving a victim’s impact statement on Thursday in court in Brooklyn for the sentencing of Stephen Sakai.

Mr. Sakai killed Edwin Mojica and Wayne Tyson in 2005.

The bouncer, Stephen Sakai, 32, was dealt the maximum sentence by Justice John P. Walsh of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, but not before introducing yet another wrinkle into a case that has had more than its share.

Mr. Sakai retained a new lawyer for the sentencing, who moved to overturn the conviction on the ground that Mr. Sakai’s previous lawyer had failed to introduce a journal of Mr. Sakai’s that would prove he had been elsewhere at the time of the crimes.

“His attorney worked against him,” said the new lawyer, Tamara M. Harris.

During the trial, Mr. Sakai testified to the journal’s existence but failed to produce it. His former lawyer, Kleon C. Andreadis, said by phone on Thursday that he had asked Mr. Sakai for the journal repeatedly.

“At no time was it offered to me despite my insistence that I see it before he take the stand,” Mr. Andreadis said, adding that the journal would have had little evidentiary value anyway.

Ms. Harris also told the judge that Mr. Andreadis had refused to call Mr. Sakai’s mother as a witness despite assurances that he would. Mr. Sakai’s mother, Ms. Harris said, was prepared to corroborate Mr. Sakai’s contention that he was repeatedly drugged by detectives during his interrogation.

“Her son didn’t even resemble himself” when the police got through with him, Ms. Harris said.

Mr. Andreadis said that he had seen no reason to call Mr. Sakai’s mother, because she had not witnessed the effects of mistreatment claimed by Mr. Sakai. Justice Walsh seemed little moved by Ms. Harris’s arguments.

“I don’t see anything on the record that as a matter of law would reverse his conviction,” he said before passing sentence.

Mr. Sakai is also charged with fatally shooting a patron of a Manhattan club, Opus 22, in 2006. Jury selection is set to begin in that trial on Jan. 28.

Mr. Sakai, dressed in a black coat, gray shirt and slacks, and in handcuffs, declined to speak in his own behalf Thursday and stood expressionless as Justice Walsh pronounced sentence.

He had been more forthcoming during the trial, when he told jurors that he and the two murdered men were victims of a corrupt detective who was trying to horn in on Mr. Sakai’s security consulting business.

Police assassins, Mr. Sakai said, killed the two men after Mr. Sakai began using his martial arts students to spy on the police.

On the stand, he promised that his mother would soon arrive with a journal providing his alibi. She was already in the courtroom and did not offer a journal.

Mr. Sakai, a bouncer at the Wild Cherry club in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was convicted last month of the second-degree murder of Wayne Tyson, 56, an occasional patron of the club and a martial arts student, and Edwin Mojica, 41, a security coordinator there.

Mr. Tyson was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Crown Heights, and Mr. Mojica was found shot in the back of the head on his stoop in Williamsburg.

Before the sentencing, Mr. Mojica’s older sister, Zoraida Cook, gave a victim impact statement. She made a point of refusing to use the defendant’s last name, which he adopted in 1998 after years of martial arts study, and addressing him by his birth name, Stephen Sanders.

“Martial arts is a system of ethics,” involving humility, respect and loyalty and honor, Ms. Cook said. “You’re not a man of honor. You’re nothing but a coward, Stephen Sanders.”

I'm not sure NGB certification would do that much to combat perceived frauds. That has always been with us and always will, and truth be told, it's only bothersome if you let it be bothersome. Martial arts people will always posture. That's just our nature. The problem with establishing an NGB is really economical. It would have to come from the private sector initially, and I just can't see anyone ready to invest in that yet.

GeneChing

01-08-2008, 09:23 PM

Karate rape - a new term for KFM. Let's all work to eliminate Karate rape.

Feds: NYPD Cop Transported Minors For Sex (http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2008/01/07/transported_minors/)
Posted on Monday, 7 of January , 2008 at 6:20 pm

NEW YORK—Trent Young, a New York City police officer, charged last week with the alleged rape of two students of his martial arts school, is now also facing federal charges, arrested Monday in connection with his transportation of two minors from New York to New Jersey for purposes of illegal sexual activity. According to a complaint filed Monday in White Plains federal court, Young, 39, transported two minors on separate occasions from Middletown, NY, to his martial arts studio in West Milford, NJ, and engaged in sexual intercourse with the minors there.

Prosecutors say that these victims, who are now 15 years old and 17 years old respectively and were 14 and 15 respectively when the abuse began, were both martial arts students of Young’s. According to the complaint, in 2005 when Victim 1 received a “green belt,” Young required her to sign a document stating that she would be obedient. That day, young allegedly stated that he was going to test Victim 1’s obedience and told her to take off her clothes. While undressed, Young allegedly touched her breasts.

From in or about August 2006 through in or about October 2007, as set forth in the complaint, Young allegedly engaged in other sexual activities with Victim 1, including sexual intercourse. The sexual intercourse allegedly occurred in Middletown and in West Milford at Young’s martial arts studio called “Iron Tiger.”In the Spring of 2007, Young allegedly requested that another martial arts student (“Victim 2″) remove her clothes. Victim 2 refused. As reflected in the complaint, after Young’s arrest on Dec. 27, by the Middletown Police Department, a third victim (“Victim 3″) reported alleged sexual abuse by Young in 2005 and 2006.

Victim 3 began taking martial arts lessons from Young in Middletown in or about March 2005. Several months later, Young allegedly began to engage in sexual activities with Victim 3, including sexual intercourse. As set forth in the complaint, on an occasion in the Summer of 2006, Young drove Victim 3 from Middletown to his martial arts studio in New Jersey and engaged in sexual intercourse with Victim 3. Young was presented in White Plains federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge George A. Yanthis Monday afternoon. He was detained without bail.

Michael Garcia, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that the investigation is ongoing. He requested that any individuals with relevant information contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Goshen, New York at (845) 615-1700. The federal charges each carry a mandatory minimum sentence, upon conviction, of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison.

GeneChing

01-10-2008, 02:39 AM

...but it's very tragic and it's a martial arts related crime.
Martial arts fan killed brother with Samurai sword, court told (http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/Martial-arts-fan-killed-brother.3657113.jp)

Wednesday, 5pm - A martial arts fan stabbed his own brother to death with a samurai sword as their mother tried to keep them apart, a court was told today.
Julian Mayfield-Sparks plunged the blade into his brother Corin's chest after a trivial row over noise spiralled into terrifying violence, a jury heard.

Their mother Deanna stood helplessly between the pair as 18-year-old Corin suffered the fatal blow on the landing of the family's Grantham home.

She was left crying hysterically as the teenager slumped to the floor and bled to death as she looked on helplessly, Lincoln Crown Court was told.

Julian - whose favourite film was Quentin Tarantino's violent samurai-influenced revenge thriller Kill Bill - later told police: "I've stabbed my brother."

John Pini QC, prosecuting, told the jury: "All cases of murder are tragedies, but there are two features that make this tragedy particularly distressing.

"The first is that this is the case of a brother killing his brother. The second is that standing between the two of them was their mother Deanna.

"She is going to have to face the almost unimaginable ordeal of having to give evidence as to how one of her sons died at the hands of the other."

He said Mrs Mayfield-Spark's plight was "extremely distressing", adding: "The powers of the English language can hardly do justice to such a dilemma."

The court heard Julian, 20 at the time of the killing, had "a love-hate relationship" with Corin that involved massive fall-outs followed by making up.

Mr Pini said: "Sometimes those flare-ups resulted in violence, and sometimes weapons were used. But often they would just wind each other up.

"The impression one gets is that both boys had their good points and their faults. Both could be loving, but both could use force on the other."

Mr Pini said Julian had recently returned home after six years living with his girlfriend's family - leading to "immediate tension" between the brothers.

They shared a bedroom at first, but eventually their mother allowed Julian to sleep in her room while she slept downstairs in the living-room.

On the night of the stabbing Julian was watching a film on his laptop with friends while Corin was in his attic bedroom with friends of his own.

During the evening the teenager complained a number of times about the noise from Julian's room - and at one point struck him with a rounders bat.

Mr Pini said: "Julian then went down to the ground floor to tell his mother that Corin had hit him. His mother put her clothes on and went upstairs.

"What happened next was seen by a number of witnesses. Deanna went upstairs and was standing between her sons at the crucial moment.

"She says Julian was angry. She said to Corin: 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' She thinks Julian said to Corin: 'Come on, get down here.'

"Corin waited for a short while before he came down. She can't say whether he had anything in his hand when he came down that ladder.

"She says she went towards Corin. She was 18 inches away and facing him. What she was trying to do was to talk to Corin to defuse this situation.

"At that point she saw a black sword come down her right-hand side. She saw it go into Corin. Corin stood there and said: 'Julian, you've stabbed me.'

"Deanna said: 'But there's no blood.' Corin said: 'But I've been stabbed, mum.' He stood for no more than a couple of seconds and collapsed.

"He was slumped against the door. Julian made no attempt to help. One of their friends tried to stem the blood, and the emergency services were called.

"Resuscitation was attempted, but it was futile. Mrs Mayfield-Sparks was crying hysterically. The scene in the house can only be imagined."

The court heard the blow from the 2ft-bladed samurai word cut eight inches into Corin's aorta, leaving him to bleed to death in a matter of minutes.

His brother later told police he was simply holding the sword in his hand when the teenager came towards him and accidentally impaled himself.

But Mr Pini said: "He wanted to teach his brother a lesson. He deliberately stabbed his brother in a way that death or really serious harm was inevitable.

"In that split second of rage this defendant intended to take revenge on his brother for what he perceived as unfair treatment at his hands."

He added: "He had a particular fascination with martial arts swords. When he moved back in he brought with him his collection of samurai swords.

"These included the weapon used to kill Corin. One of his favourite films was Kill Bill, which features these sorts of swords quite prominently."

Julian, now 21, of Bridge End Road, Grantham, denies murdering his brother on June 1 last year, claiming he raised the sword only in self-defence.

The trial continues.

Lucas

01-10-2008, 02:47 AM

BS

he stabbed his brother.

you cant not see a f@cking katana being wielded at you....

Mas Judt

01-10-2008, 05:05 AM

Ed Parker tried to get certification laws passed. Actually, any group large enough and willing to make the effort can push to get laws passed on the state level. The problem with martial arts is: Whose standards/gradings/qualifications are used and how are they used to judge others?

It gets really tough - and would not eliminate most problems - just add additional expense & hassle. Government oversight of 'professional' fields is often more harmful than beneficial to consumers. They are used mostly to limit competition.

Lucas

01-11-2008, 09:25 AM

How many certified elementary school teachers do we see busted every year? I'm not even sure if any sort of stae/nateion wide certification would solve many problems as far as child abuse goes.

GeneChing

01-11-2008, 07:14 PM

Stop Karate Rape.
Feds add charges against karate instructor (http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2008/01/11/west_milford_messenger/news/3.txt)

GOSHEN, NY — The New York City policeman already charged with raping a then-14-year-old student at his martial arts school has now been accused by federal prosecutors of crossing state lines for sex with that girl and another.

Trent Young, who ran the Iron Tiger Martial Arts School in Bald Eagle Commons, had been free on bail on the original Orange County rape charge brought against him last week.

He was re-arrested by federal prosecutors and ordered held by federal Magistrate Judge George Yanthis at federal court in White Plains.

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Young, of Middletown, had transported the two minors from his home to his school in West Milford, N.J., and had sex with them there. The federal charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, he said.

Young’s attorney, Gary Greenwald said his client’s defense is that ``it never happened.’’

Young, 39, was arrested in Middletown last month for raping the teen by telling her sex was part of the martial arts program, police said. He tried to get a second 15-year-old out of her clothes, but she refused, they said.

A third teenager, now 17, came forward after the arrest and said she, too, had engaged in sex with Young while a student at his school in 2005 and 2006.

Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips has been quoted as saying the Middletown charges will most likely be dropped to avoid double jeopardy with the federal case and because the federal penalties are more severe.

Young has been with the New York Police Department for nine years and worked in the 26th Precinct in upper Manhattan. He has been suspended.

Anyone with information should contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Goshen, New York at 845-615-1700.

GeneChing

01-11-2008, 07:21 PM

Still think this is BS Lucas?

Samurai lad ‘killed bruv’ (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article670772.ece)
Published: 10 Jan 2008

A MARTIAL arts fan killed his brother with a 2ft samurai sword “in a row over nothing”, a court heard yesterday.

Julian Mayfield-Sparks, 21, stabbed brother Corin, 18, as mum Deanna tried to keep them apart, Lincoln Crown Court was told.

The sword cut eight inches into Corin’s heart and he bled to death as his mother wept hysterically. The fight grew from a trivial argument over noise from Julian’s room at their home in Grantham, Lincs.

John Pini QC, prosecuting, told the jury: “Julian deliberately stabbed his brother in a way that death or really serious harm was inevitable.”

Julian denies murder. The case continues.

GeneChing

01-11-2008, 08:47 PM

There's a lot of places I could go with this, but out of respect for the victim, I'll restrain myself.
Martial arts expert charged with fork stabbing (http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080111/NEWS/80111019)
By Elizabeth Dinan
edinan@seacoastonline.com
January 11, 2008 12:03 PM

PORTSMOUTH — A local martial arts expert stabbed a woman who was trying to break up with him with a fork, knocked a cell phone out of her hand as she tried to call for help and forced her to the ground, say police.

Based on those allegations, police arrested Alain Brown, 45, of 1338 Woodbury Ave., on a felony count of simple assault and misdemeanor charges of simple assault and obstructing the report of a crime.

The felony complaint alleges Brown stabbed the victim in the shoulder with the intent to cause her bodily harm. The obstructing the report of a crime charge alleges he knocked a cell phone out of the woman’s hand when she began calling police, then smashed it. The misdemeanor assault charge alleges he pushed the woman in the chest, knocking her to the ground.

According to an affidavit filed with the district court by Officer David Keaveny, when he responded to Brown’s residence Thursday night, he found the victim “crying and visibly upset,” with a bloodied hole in her shirt and her skin punctured from a fork wound.

Keaveny’s statement includes the victim’s assertion that the alleged crimes were committed after she went to Brown’s residence to end a relationship with him, that he stabbed her with the fork multiple times, had struck her in the past and she was “scared of him.”

During a Friday arraignment, prosecutor Corey MacDonald said Brown was a martial arts expert with a criminal history including drug possession with intent to distribute, several simple assault convictions, criminal trespassing, receiving stolen property and reckless conduct.

“He chased her down and stabbed her with a fork on more than one occasion,” said MacDonald, while petitioning the court for high bail.

Brown told the judge he is a self-employed contractor and acknowledged his martial arts expertise.

“All those criminal things (MacDonald) said are in my past,” Brown told Judge Sawako Gardner. “I’ve been out of trouble for a long time.”

After reviewing his criminal history, the judge reminded Brown of a 2005 conviction for trespassing, a 1998 simple assault conviction and a 1994 guilty finding for reckless conduct.

Brown told the court he could not post cash bail but owns his home, before the judge set bail at $10,000 cash or surety and $10,000 personal recognizance.

He was ordered to have no contact with the victim and a witness, not to possess any firearms, dangerous weapons or ammunition and return to the court for a Jan. 27 probable cause hearing.

lkfmdc

01-11-2008, 08:56 PM

"screw you and your canoes!"

(anyone know that joke?)

Lucas

01-11-2008, 09:27 PM

"screw you and your canoes!"

(anyone know that joke?)

thats an awsome joke!

lol, **** cannibals

Lucas

01-11-2008, 09:29 PM

Still think this is BS Lucas?

Ya, I mean, how can he deny it.....

1. he is arguing with his bro.

2. he gets a katana.

3. he points it at his brothers chest and impales his heart.

murder IMO

its a really sad case

:(

GeneChing

01-21-2008, 10:13 PM

Usually ttt's to the top before it drops off the front page - a sorry barometer of this sort of news...

Martial arts teacher arrested for sexual assault against kids (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/01/17/qc-martialpedophile0117.html)
Convicted pedophile ran Chinese-boxing school in Eastern Townships
Last Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2008 | 7:10 PM ET

A convicted Quebec pedophile who ran a Chinese-boxing school in the Eastern Townships has been arrested and could face new charges of sexual assault against children, police said.

Provincial police arrested the man on Thursday morning after looking for him for a week following a complaint from the father of one of his boxing students.

He will likely face several sexual assault charges in connection to incidents involving 10-year-old children that police allege have taken place over the last six months, provincial police spokesman Ronald McInnis said.

Until a few weeks ago, the man was running a Chinese-boxing school near Saint-Hyacinthe, southeast of Montreal. The father of one of the students at that school became suspicious and contacted police, explained provincial police spokesman Ronald McInnis.

"He [did some] investigation, and when he saw this guy had done this kind of thing, he called [police]," McInnis told CBC News.

Police wouldn't confirm whether the children he is suspected of assaulting were students at the Saint-Hyacinthe boxing school.
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The man was previously convicted on sexual assault charges against children he taught in the late 1990s. He served a four-year sentence for his crimes.

His release conditions included an order that he stay away from minors under 14.

All of the man's recent martial arts students are under 14, police said.

Police said they found the man Thursday morning at a Sherbrooke-area hospital, where he was being treated for a minor medical problem.

He's under round-the-clock police surveillance until his arraignment, which should take place in the next few days, McInnis said.

GeneChing

01-25-2008, 07:38 PM

...five tasings and "he didn't take a bad beating"

Martial arts fighter slowly improving (http://www.orovillemr.com/news/ci_8071482)
By GREG WELTER /MediaNews Group
Article Launched: 01/24/2008 10:03:41 PM PST

A 22-year-old martial arts fighter remains in critical condition at Oroville Hospital due to kidney failure, but appears to be recovering from other injuries he allegedly sustained in a recent struggle with Oroville police.

Chris Bias said family members were ecstatic Thursday that her son, Shawn Bias, was able to eat some pudding at the hospital, and lie on his side.

Bias allegedly ran from officers outside the Oroville apartment of a friend about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. They were there to question him about a reported disturbance.

Officers chased him into a city park and fired two Taser stun gun rounds at him when he refused to stop.

Oroville Police Chief Kirk Trostle said his officers tased Bias a total of five times before they were able to subdue him and place him in handcuffs. Some of the tasings, he said, were "drive stuns" which involves the stun gun making direct contact with the victim, rather than a fired projectile.

Police later had to place an additional restraint device on him when he attempted to kick out windows in a patrol car.

Chris Bias said her son admitted to being under the influence of oxycontin and cocaine when contacted by police.

Officers arrested him on suspicion of resisting arrest and took him to the hospital, where family members said he suffered a heart attack, and went into kidney failure. He lapsed into a coma Sunday, then emerged from it Tuesday and slowly began to talk.

Chris Bias said her son has been talking about the incident Sunday, but family members won't discuss possible allegations against police until he is out of danger. "We're still very worried about his kidneys," she said.

A friend said Bias vividly recalls the incident.

Bias, who weighs 145 pounds, held the featherweight title for mixed martial arts fighting until last Thursday, when he lost it during a Palace Fighting Championship bout in the Central Valley town of Lemoore.

Family members and writers for Sherdog — a Web site which follows the mixed martial arts and cage fighting industry — said he didn't take a bad beating.

Bias was a star wrestler at Oroville High School, from which he graduated in 2004.

xcakid

01-25-2008, 08:18 PM

Well first thing he did wrong is he ran from the cops. Those fat a$$e$ don't like to do anything physical. :p That just ****es them off to no end.

Second thing he did wrong was being all coked up.

GeneChing

02-06-2008, 07:30 PM

See posts 42 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=821784&postcount=42) & 47. (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=822436&postcount=47)

Karate Teacher Charged After Kicking Student More Than 200 Times (http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5693157&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1)
Last Edited: Wednesday, 06 Feb 2008, 6:39 AM EST
Created: Wednesday, 06 Feb 2008, 6:39 AM EST

SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A Suffolk grand jury is set to consider the case of a martial arts instructor charged with kicking an 11-year-old student more than 200 times, causing internal injuries and possibly breaking a rib.

A Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge on Tuesday certified the charges against 47-year-old Susan Bateman of Hampton to Circuit Court. Bateman was arrested in November and charged with one felony count of child endangerment.

A grand jury will consider the case when it meets later this month.

Police say Bateman issued a challenge during class at a Suffolk dojo to see how many kicks to the abdomen students could take. Students got into a push-up position while Bateman kicked, stopping when the student either said to or went to his or her knees.

GeneChing

02-06-2008, 07:34 PM

...on of our forum members here. Anyone care to 'fess up?

There is a pic on the first article but it's not him. It's the "Naked Stock Photography Guy".

Nude martial arts guy takes on cops (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=93906&in_page_id=2)
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

An angry naked martial arts expert took on four policemen in a street fight, wresting one of their batons away and withstanding two Taserings before being finally subdued, in New York state on Sunday.

'It was sort of a police officer's worst nightmare,' commented local Police Chief Louis Alagno

The naked incident started on Sunday evening, when a naked man, later identified as 28-year-old Peter Lu, started banging on a woman's door in Chappaqua, New York for no apparent reason.

The woman called police – but when Officer Frank Cavallaro arrived at the aptly named Hardscrabble Road, Lu charged at him, nakedly. Cavallaro responded by Tasering him.

By this point, Lu was on the ground, still naked. Cavallaro ordered him to put his hands behind his back, so he could be handcuffed, but Lu refused. More Tasering ensued – but rather than subduing Lu, this seemed only to enrage him.

He fought back at Cavallaro, disabling the Taser by knocking the cartridge out of his hand, and then disarming the officer of his baton when he tried to swing that.

'It's apparent he had martial arts training based on the moves he was using,' said Chief Alagno.

Faced with a naked, baton-wielding martial arts expert heading his way, Carvallo drew his gun – but fortunately for all concerned, three other cops showed up at that point, and they were eventually able to wrestle him to the ground and cuff him. Thus, the Battle of Peter Lu was brought to an end without anybody getting shot.

Lu was taken to a hospital where he was examined in a psychiatric unit. Police found Lu's clothes and car at a construction site a half-mile away, according to local paper The Journal News.

'I would describe his behavior as bizarre,' Alagno commented. 'Was it drugs? Was it mental illness? I don't know.'

Martial Arts Expert Charges at Officers Naked (http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=68251)

New York: Peekskill resident Peter Lu, 28, was arrested Sunday afternoon after a Chappaqua woman called police saying he was banging on the front door completely naked. When an officer showed up, Lu charged at him, but was taken down with a Taser.

When he wouldn't put his hands behind him, he got another Tasering. He began complying but resumed fighting just as he was to be cuffed, knocking the officer's Taser from his hand. When the officer swung his baton at Lu, he knocked it away as well.

Lu then charged the officer with the baton. Soon after, three more units arrived and subdued him. "It's apparent he had martial arts training based on the moves he was using," said police. The rambling, incoherent man is now in a psychiatric unit.