And another one ...

… another TKD coach groping student.

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail5440.cfm?ID=0,45538
http://www.ksfy.com/Stories/Story.cfm?SID=5758

He’s an instructor (and apparently married to the head coach) of Self-Defense America. I’ve seen the head coach interviewed on the local new quite regularly, usually pieces about self-defense (i.e. on-campus women’s class). One, I think, featured a blind student getting his first dan, after a couple years training.

see http://www.siouxfallskarate.com/index.cfm?page=4

IIRC, they’re affiliated with that Combat Hapkido POS, that’s enough for a thread right there.

That dude just SCREAMS, “Child Molestor!”

Hey, at least they teach “full contact” TKD.

I don’t consider 12 years old a teenager yet. I think he should get more time for her being 12 year old preteen.

the guy who wrote the first article needs to take a few more writing courses. that stuff was pretty annoying to read.

Jebus.

I knew there guys were pretty much Bullshido, but didn’t realize how bad. From their “Programs” page:

Ultimate Martial Artist Program For Children and Adults
This program combines the best aspects of several martial arts styles. UMA mixes the high, hard kicks of TaeKwonDo with the saavy, street smart self defenses of Chun Tu Kwon Hapkido, fill in the gaps with kickboxing and Brazilian Jujitsu.

http://www.siouxfallskarate.com/index.cfm?page=7

Read further down the link; there should be some creeped out parents.

However, IIRC from the news broadcasts; though KC is defending him, Bud’s been fired.

Yeah, my buddy is a student instructor in Praying Mantis under Sifu Langenfeld there. I studied with them for about 4 classes. My bud told me the little he knew about the case. (Which is less than what the news said.) This place used to host the local BJJ instructor, until him and “Master” KC had a falling out. She’s got a criminal record and done some funny stuff with money around that place, too.

I find it curious there’s no pic of the accused instructor, though. Well, he did admit to it. Why did he admit to it? Guilt? Most criminals go to jail and then the grave swearing they’re innocent even when they’re not. Didn’t he think he could afford a decent lawyer? The cops around here are dicks, I wonder if they did something funny to get a confession.

BTW, their “kickboxing” program is an aerobics class.

Additional news info-

Instructor suspended after fondling charges

DAN HAUGEN
dhaugen@argusleader.com

01/27/06, 2:55 am

A Sioux Falls martial arts school has suspended an instructor accused of inappropriately fondling a student. Bud Williams, 46, was arrested Tuesday and is charged with having sexual contact with a child who was 13 years old at the time.

The alleged victim was a female student at Self Defense America, where Williams taught tae kwon do for more than a decade. “We’ve all been stunned by this,” said KC Estes-Williams, the school’s director. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the student was spending the night at Williams’ house on Nov. 11. She planned to ride with Williams the next day to a tournament in the Twin Cities.

The student slept on Williams’ couch. She told police that she was awakened by Williams rubbing her breasts through her sweatshirt. She said she moved her arms, and the instructor fled from the house. She then walked to a nearby gas station and called her mother, who then called police. Officers interviewed Williams at the gas station that day, and he denied anything happened. About a week later, investigators invited Williams to talk again about the allegation. On Nov. 23, according to the affidavit, Williams eventually confessed to touching the student. He reportedly told police it was a “stupid act.”

The affidavit also states that after the incident, Williams drove to the tae kwon do school, where he looked at pornography on his work computer. Estes-Williams said the suspect, a third-degree black belt, will stay suspended pending the outcome of his criminal charge. She said it has been common for coaches to assist students with transportation to out-of-town events. When schedules required leaving early in the morning, students occasionally stayed at instructors’ houses. “We’ve changed the policy of the school to not ever allow the children to sleep over,” Estes-Williams said.

On the night of the incident, the alleged victim was the only student at the house. Estes-Williams said a parent dropped her off around midnight. She said the school also might consider no longer providing students with transportation to events. A female instructor has been hired to take over Williams’ classes, she said. A judge ordered Wednesday that Williams not have contact with the victim or unsupervised contact with children. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb 9.

Reach Dan Haugen at 331-2335.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS/601270330/1001

So this guy is “Master” KC’s hubbie? She fired him… so when’s the divorce? He taught cops, too, HAAAAAA!!!

Shall I be the one?

I guess so: If there’s no grass on the field, flip 'er around and play in the mud.

Funny but so wrong.

01/27/2006
Wife/Boss Defends Tae Kwon Do Instructor

A Sioux Falls man, whose job is to teach and coach kids, is in jail, charged with inappropriately touching one of his students.

Bud Williams is a Tae Kwan Do instructor at Self Defense America on East 10th Street. Last November, a 13-year-old student was sleeping at his house the night before they were to travel to Minneapolis for a tournament.

She says she woke up to Williams rubbing her breasts outside her sweatshirt.

But Williams’s wife, who is also his boss, has a different story.

KC Estes-Williams owns Self Defense America. She says it’s not unusual for students to spend the night at their home if they were traveling early in the morning for an out-of-town tournament. And it was not unusual for this girl to stay there, because she was friends with their daughter.

But Estes-Williams says the girl made up the story, and the police reports are inaccurate.

The wife of Bud Williams didn’t want to go on camera, but she wanted their side of the story to be clear. “Well, you know, it’s a nightmare,” Estes-Williams says.

She says on the night of November 11th, she and her daughter were already in Minneapolis for a Tae Kwon Do tournament. Bud Williams was home alone, planning to drive a student to the tournament the next morning. Then that student’s mother showed up at his door.

“The mother was supposed to drop her off at 7:00 in the morning, and she showed up at midnight and pretty much said if you don’t let her spend the night, she doesn’t get to go,” Estes-Williams says. “And because she had done it so many times and trusted her and the mother, he said: Okay, go ahead and sleep on the couch.”

At some point during the night, the 13-year-old left Williams’s home and called her mother from a gas station. She told police she woke up to Williams fondling her. And court papers say he admitted it to police. But his wife says that’s not true.

“He said that they’ve twisted things around, that he didn’t say that,” she says. “It’ll come out in court, but for now, everybody is hearing he admitted it. He said he never admitted it.”

Bud Williams told his wife he admitted to tapping the girl on the shoulder to let her know he was leaving the house for a few minutes. When he returned, she was gone. Williams’s wife says he’s never inappropriately touched a student, let alone this one.

“He really cared for this student,” she says. “And she’s been with him for a long time. She had spent the night at the house a number of times, not just before tournaments, but as a friend of our daughter.”

Estes-Williams says all of the parents she’s heard from have been supportive. Self Defense America’s policy has changed, so students can’t sleep over anymore, and she says Bud Williams will likely not return to the school even if found not-guilty.

He is still in jail on a $5,000 cash or surety bond.

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail5440.cfm?Id=0,45566

That answers a lot more questions.

If he’s not guilty, I can’t imagine a worse nightmare than to be in jail for being accused of being a chimo. I mean, if he’s innocent, how does he prove it? DNA testing won’t help in a fondling case. I don’t know if even fingerprints off the sweater would help. Has it been washed? Is it in evidence? Are there prints on the shoulder, or the tit region, too? He may get off, 'cause it’s his word vs. hers. I mean, where’s the evidence? If he can get decent defense, they’ll probably bring up the whole half awake dream state thing. In other words, she just dreamt it, and the shoulder shaking “confirmed” it for her.

If he gets a public defender, he’ll be fucked. Here in SD there’s no pro bono criminal defense lawyers, and I know from first hand experience that the public defender always tells you you don’t have a chance and that you should plea bargain. He and his wife don’t seem to have the cash for bond, so I’m thinking he’s screwd as far as a lawyer goes. As far as the local cops twisting around words, I’ve had that happen to me, too. our cops around here are absolute pieces of shit. I wonder about the dowloading porn at work afterwards thing, too. He may just be guilty and get fucked. First in court, and then in the local Pen on the hill.

I’m gonna pray that the truth gets out, and that nobody innocent gets hurt.