Martial Arts Instructor Accused Of Propositioning Teen
January 26, 2006
FAIRFAX, Va. – An Alexandria-area man has been arrested and charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor.
Police said a 14-year-old girl was at a sleepover held at American Martial Arts Academy at 7680 Richmond Highway when an instructor proposed a sex act between 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. The girl refused and the instructor did not continue to pursue her. The victim told a parent when she was picked up that morning, and the parent contacted police.
"His personal goal is to make a difference in developing leaders for America’s future that have character and high standards of excellence. “Leaders start out as children and young adults. Tukong and computers will give them the confidence and skills to be the leaders our country needs for the future.”
This guy has been selling mistruths and lying about the origins of Tukong for years. He is not honest and his website is completely innacurate. I am not surprised that this happened.
You got that on video? Otherwise it’s all made up. And even if it’s true, this guy sucks. He couldn’t win a ground game with a 14 year old girl. What a wanker…
Tonuzaba
Any body know the real background on this fellow? How did he get the authority to open his own Dojang and award rank if his credentials were bogus?
A few years ago there was a real movement in New Jersey to require all MA instructrs to undergo a criminal background check and be fingerprinted in order to weed out the criminal element of MA instructor. The legislation was defeated, but, given the number of predatory instructors garnering mainstream media attention it may only be a matter of time before the licensing movement starts up again.
Thanks for the reply ex jungyae. I went to both websites to get more information regarding the style.
I have much respect for the ROK Special Forces. But as is sometimes the case with some full time MA instructors, money has a way of changing things.
Ironically, both groups claim to be the focus of mainstream media attention and clearly market their art to children. So this development is going to impact upon both groups if this man gets convicted.
Thanks for getting all the facts before you smear my name everywhere EX. You are true martial artist of the highest caliber. Or maybe not. What is it with your fascination with me and TUKONG? Are you bitter about something? Did I ever do anything to you?? Well, here is my side of the coin.
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I am Jimmy Higgins. I was there and the NBC people never interviewed me about it. In the police report and during the trial by jury, she did not EVER claim I proposed sex acts. Thank you NBC for the smear on my name without getting the facts.
The night before she was introduced as the babysitter or 16 years old for her 4 year old brother who was going to the All You Can Eat Pizza Party Sleepover, but they had no money for the $29 each since they had just moved and knew nobody here. I let them stay for free to help a single mom who had just divorced and had no money for her kids to even go to a Pizza Party. We never met them before and knew nothing about them.
The next day, the girl never told anyone that I did such a thing when her mother picked her up. In Fact, she never even told her mother anything at all.
In the police report, she was talking with her older teenage friend a week later about the night, (the friend had a history of drug use and problems with police and had been thrown out of her house by her mother before for undisciplined behavior including sex and drugs).
After the two talked, the friend went and told the friend’s mother a story and that mother called the girl’s mother and told her a story and then they called to ask if I was “rich”? and if I “owned the school?” (make your own assumptions of motive here.)
The next day the mother (who had been divorced twice and who had been pregnant at age 15 with a history of problems with men) called the police to make a report, but no where in the report did it ever say I proposed sex acts! (Thank you Ex-Jung Yae for helping NBC smear me again here without checking any facts).
The police investigated the report and found it not plausible after the girl admitted to them she had lied on parts of the report (which is a crime to file a false police report, but she, being 14, was never prosecuted for it). They talked with me and understood that there was no way this could happen in front of 30 other children who were all within 5 - 20 feet away at all times with 3 other adults there. They were so sure nothing happened or could have the way the girl described it, that they never even asked any other person there that night, adult or child what happened.
Their supervisor, 4 months later, after harassment from the twice divorced mother, told them to wash their hands and kick it over to judicial so that the mother could not say they did not do their jobs and judicial could handle it. THAT SUCKED! I talked with many law enforcement detectives that I have trained for years and they explained exactly how it worked.
Well, $30K and 4 moths later, during the trial, the girl, now 15 (yeah teen girls actually do lie) admits she lied to the police on the report and she purjers herself on the stand, by stating 3 times, that I “never told her to go to sleep or go lay down.” She confirms this 3 times, then my attorney reads to her a transcript she had with the police where she states I “KEPT telling her to go lay down!” He askes her if she remembers saying this witht he police present and has the transscript in his hand? The Prosecutor objects, but the judge tells her to answer. She says she does remeber that but, but, and then tears come. (That is the clearest case of PURJURY thre is - the witness says they just lied on the stand!) There are a few other instances where she commits perjury, but that is the clearest where she admits that she just lied.
Everyone in the jury suddenly, almost in unison, crosses their arms and shakes their heads. The prosecutor objects and asks for a side bar. Apparently, she is not allowed to perjure herself since she is a minor, so she is not prosecuted for that either.
At the end of the 2 day trial, the jury comes back in less than an hour and says, first ballot was unanimous, 12 to 0, not guilty. One of the jurors comes to the school right after wards and says he wants to congratulate me and tells me that everyone knew after the first day, before I had anywitnesses that she was lying. He said one juror went into the back at the end and before they coudl say anything he said, “I don’t have any kids, but when I do, I am putting them into his school.” And then another says, “If I lived close enough I would take my kids there today and sign up.”
Well, that was satisfying but I already had a bunch of jerks who had smeared my name and made posts liek this before they ever contacted me or checked the facts.
I want to thank EX for being sucha stand up guy with such high honorable principles to help smear my name but not do anything to clear it.
Afte the trial I contacted every news agency that I knew falsly and inaccurately reported this “News” I sent them a copy of the verdict and the accurate testimony of the police officers, but none would run the article. It was not news if I am innocent and the teenage girl lied about averything. Thanks a lot fo rthe wisdom and support guys.
I am Jimmy Higgins. I will tell you exactly what leadership qualities.
That night, after we had discussed her weight problem (self-image disorder) of being over 160 lbs but only 5’3", she had told me that she had been using drugs and that she had been molested since she was in 4th grade by her PE teacher. I told her she should tell someone about that. She told me there was a 21 year old guy that she had been meeting for oral for him. I told her she really needed to talk to her mother about these things. She came on to me, but I said no.
She wanted to know if I was going to say anything to her mother about what she told me? I said she should be the one and she was not my student and I did not know her or her mother so no, it was up to her to talk about drugs and her PE teacher and the guy. I knew already that her mother had gotten pregnant when she was 15, so I was not sure the mother would even object. The only time her mother ever talked with me was on the phone a week later with accusations and when I mentioned the issue of drugs and her teach and the older guy, her mother went silent and then went into trage and said her daughter would never lie about such things. Yeah teenage girls who are over weight and been through 2 divorces by their mother and jut moved 3000 miles accross the country are suffering no anxiety at all and would not lie about anything to the mother who does not know what is going on in her child’s life.
Thanks for the smear on my character with this post.