Karate Teacher Accused Of Molesting Girl
POSTED: Saturday, August 19, 2006
UPDATED: 11:04 am EDT August 20,
2006
A 36-year-old karate teacher in Kissimmee, Fla., was arrested Friday night on suspicion he molested a young girl in his class, police told Local 6 News.
Investigators said Bradley R. Knight, the chief instructor and owner of the Tigers Den Karate-Do Academy located on East Carroll Street in Kissimmee was charged with battery and molestation of a teenager.
The girl making the accusations against Knight was a student in a summer class, the report said.
"(Police) say Bradley Knight, the chief instructor, abused his power and took advantage of a defenseless and impressionable teenager," Local 6 reporter Erik von Ancken said. "Deputies said the (alleged) relationship between the teenage girl and (Knight) was consensual but apparently the parents still want to press charges."
Pat Brown, who is a parent who with a child in the school, said he saw deputies serving a search warrant at the school Friday.
"Everybody that seems to have positive credentials at some point in time, but they always seem to let you down," Brown said. "What the sheriff told me it was for inappropriate contact with a teenage girl."
Investigators said there may be more alleged victims in connection with the case.
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