Wednesday, February 07, 2007

battery charge

A Watsonville elementary school teacher and martial arts instructor, pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of battery.

The 44-year-old, a fourth-grade elementary school teacher and owner of a now defunct martial arts school, was charged with felony child molestation and a misdemeanor of committing lewd acts with a child.

Prosecutor Ross Taylor said the charges stem from an incident where the man had an 11-year-old girl grab his genitals during a kung fu lesson at the martial arts school.

In his plea to the battery charge, the man admitted he had the girl touch him for sexual gratification, Taylor said.

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