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THE SEATTLE TIMES - December 4, 1998
MARTIAL-ARTS TEACHER GETS ALMOST 5 YEARS
EVERETT - An Arlington tae-kwon-do instructor was sentenced yesterday to nearly five years in prison for sexually molesting three teenage girls who were his students. A packed courtroom watched as Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer sentenced Jonathan Novy, 28, to four years, nine months in prison. Novy was charged in July with second-degree and third-degree child molestation as well as third-degree rape of a child. Court documents alleged he molested the girls from 1994 to 1996...
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MARTIAL-ARTS TEACHER GETS ALMOST 5 YEARS
EVERETT - An Arlington tae-kwon-do instructor was sentenced yesterday to nearly five years in prison for sexually molesting three teenage girls who were his students. A packed courtroom watched as Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer sentenced Jonathan Novy, 28, to four years, nine months in prison. Novy was charged in July with second-degree and third-degree child molestation as well as third-degree rape of a child. Court documents alleged he molested the girls from 1994 to 1996...
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Yakima Herald-Republic (WA) - December 16, 2003
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Jonathan Novy Arlington Taekwondo School Arlington Parents paid hundreds of dollars a month for their children to attend the Arlington Taekwondo School but missed the warning signs about Novy, the owner. (The school has since been sold.) He touched the girls inappropriately and spent time with them outside the gym.For several years, Novy got away with molesting three of his top students. "No one wanted to see it," said Mollie Bryan, 23, one...
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Yakima Herald-Republic (WA) - December 16, 2003
1217 Coaches-Record Book
Jonathan Novy Arlington Taekwondo School Arlington Parents paid hundreds of dollars a month for their children to attend the Arlington Taekwondo School but missed the warning signs about Novy, the owner. (The school has since been sold.) He touched the girls inappropriately and spent time with them outside the gym.For several years, Novy got away with molesting three of his top students. "No one wanted to see it," said Mollie Bryan, 23, one...
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RECORD BOOK - PART 4
Other cases of club coaches and how some victims are doubted
Jonathan Novy Arlington Taekwondo School Arlington
Parents paid hundreds of dollars a month for their children to attend the Arlington Taekwondo School but missed the warning signs about Novy, the owner. (The school has since been sold.) He touched the girls inappropriately and spent time with them outside the gym.
For several years, Novy got away with molesting three of his top students. "No one wanted to see it," said Mollie Bryan, 23, one of the victims. "There were tons of adults who never wanted to believe it."
When demonstrating martial-arts moves, "he'd 'accidentally' put his hand in your shirt in front of all these people, but he'd turn you away," she said. "My dad would be there and my brother and they'd never see it."
Novy, who opened his gym in 1992, frequently took the girls to regional competitions. Shortly after Bryan joined the gym, he started abusing her.
"He was totally pressuring me," she said.
"I didn't have my first kiss until I was 16, but I was having sex by the time I was 14."
Cori Logan, a victim at 15, said many people suspected Novy of possible wrongdoing but didn't say a word. The mentality among parents at the highly competitive academy was "you don't talk about it, don't report it," said Logan, now 26.
Logan said her parents and others could have done more to protect the girls at Novy's gym. "My mom was snowed over and my dad suspected but didn't ask," Logan said.
Even after Novy was charged with child molestation, some parents continued to support him.
Novy pleaded guilty in 1998 to molesting Bryan, Logan and another girl. He also admitted to a counselor that he had as many as 15 victims, one as young as 9 years old, according to court files.
Yet the file is full of letters of praise for the coach. A mother with two sons who were trained by Novy wrote to the sentencing judge: "Even with the trouble Jon is now in, I would not hesitate for one second to have them train under Jon Novy. I trust him that much."
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— By Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan, Seattle Times staff reporters
Copyright © 2003 The Seattle Times Company
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RECORD BOOK - PART 4
Other cases of club coaches and how some victims are doubted
Jonathan Novy Arlington Taekwondo School Arlington
Parents paid hundreds of dollars a month for their children to attend the Arlington Taekwondo School but missed the warning signs about Novy, the owner. (The school has since been sold.) He touched the girls inappropriately and spent time with them outside the gym.
For several years, Novy got away with molesting three of his top students. "No one wanted to see it," said Mollie Bryan, 23, one of the victims. "There were tons of adults who never wanted to believe it."
When demonstrating martial-arts moves, "he'd 'accidentally' put his hand in your shirt in front of all these people, but he'd turn you away," she said. "My dad would be there and my brother and they'd never see it."
Novy, who opened his gym in 1992, frequently took the girls to regional competitions. Shortly after Bryan joined the gym, he started abusing her.
"He was totally pressuring me," she said.
"I didn't have my first kiss until I was 16, but I was having sex by the time I was 14."
Cori Logan, a victim at 15, said many people suspected Novy of possible wrongdoing but didn't say a word. The mentality among parents at the highly competitive academy was "you don't talk about it, don't report it," said Logan, now 26.
Logan said her parents and others could have done more to protect the girls at Novy's gym. "My mom was snowed over and my dad suspected but didn't ask," Logan said.
Even after Novy was charged with child molestation, some parents continued to support him.
Novy pleaded guilty in 1998 to molesting Bryan, Logan and another girl. He also admitted to a counselor that he had as many as 15 victims, one as young as 9 years old, according to court files.
Yet the file is full of letters of praise for the coach. A mother with two sons who were trained by Novy wrote to the sentencing judge: "Even with the trouble Jon is now in, I would not hesitate for one second to have them train under Jon Novy. I trust him that much."
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— By Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan, Seattle Times staff reporters
Copyright © 2003 The Seattle Times Company