The jury acquitted him on four charges relating to three of the nine female complainants.
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Canada -- Nine people, two adult women and seven children, have reportedly accused a taekwondo instructor in Edmonton of sexual assault and other related crimes.
The two women are among 20 witnesses expected to be called during a 10-day trial. The court heard the accused had been teaching taekwondo since 1994, according to edmontonjournal.com.
Most of the incidents are said to have occurred during classes that were held after school hours in public school gymnasiums, between 1998 and 2007.
A 25-year-old woman who took several taekwondo classes with the defendant in 2005, told the court how the instructor touched her breast and her bottom during stretching exercises in the class.
"He gave me the willies, up and down," the woman said. "The shivers."
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