When a masked man attacked them inside their bedroom in the middle of the night Sunday, twin 10-year-old girls responded just as they had been taught in their martial arts class: they fought back.
The commotion woke their parents, who rushed in and thought they recognized the tall, pony-tailed intruder. The girls' father whacked him with the base of a table lamp and yanked off part of his mask. As the intruder ran from the Vienna townhouse, the parents were pretty sure it was "Andy," an instructor at Mountain Kim Martial Arts studio in Vienna, where their daughters take classes every week.
Hours later, Andrew Jacobs, 42, a part-time instructor at the studio who holds a black belt, was arrested at the brick house he shares with his sister, not far from the girls' home. Yesterday, he appeared in court, with a black eye and bruises on his face, on charges of assault, attempted abduction and burglary. A judge ordered him held without bond.
SOURCE: Washington Post, October 4, 2005.
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