9- and 12-year-old use karate skills to save mother from attacker

So much for teh grapple.

Attacker Sentenced To 15 Years

(posted: May 18th, 2:15pm) Albany - A New Scotland woman confronted her attacker in an Albany County courtroom on Wednesday, after her children helped fight him off.

Dan Murphy Junior received a 15 year prison sentence as part of a plea deal for attempted burglary.

He broke into Nancy Quick’s home last August and, in a drunken state, started to choke her in her bed as she slept. Her nine year old daughter and 12 year old son used the skills they learned in karate class to get Murphy off of their mother.

Murphy took a plea deal because prosecutors has his DNA evidence from the attack.

http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=3362132
Fresh news! Don’t recall a previous story.

Krotty defeats drunken strangulation, apparently.