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Martial arts instructor jailed for sex with girl
A martial arts teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old pupil has been jailed.

Neil Levesley was asked to take the girl for private Tae Kwon Do lessons and the pair had sex twice at his home after they became close, Cambridge Crown Court heard.

The 32-year-old bank worker, who was aware of the youngster's age and had confided in one of her friends the relationship could "ruin his career", admitted two charges of unlawful sexual activity.

He was sentenced to 21 months.

The two stopped seeing one another at the end of last year because of the age issue, but got back together, Sara Walker, for the prosecution, told the court.

The girl's mother became suspicious about the nature of the friendship and confronted them, but both denied they were in a relationship.

When police were informed of the suspicions they seized the pair's phones and found texts from Levesley to the girl about how much he loved being with her.

Levesley, arrrested in March at his home, Croft Park Road, Ely, confessed to what had happened between them. The friendship had developed into an emotional relationship when Levesley was at a "low ebb", following the sudden break-up with his long-term partner, Mark Shelley told the court in mitigation.

"He had had a large setback in his life and formed the friendship with the girl which then developed," he said.

"This was not a grooming type of operation. This was not a predatory case where a man identified someone he could prey on.

"This developed was an emotional relationship which was very much consensual."

Rejecting an appeal for a suspended sentence to enable Levesley's participation on a sex offender programme, Judge Anthony Batewho told him that as a mature adult, he should have resisted temptation.

"You were the girl's trusted teacher. Adults who cross the line have to be punished and I regard an immediate term of imprisonment as the only sentence appropriate," he said.

He also banned Levesley from working with children under the age of 16 in future and ordered him to sign on the Sex Offender register when he is freed.
Martial Arts Instructor Arrested for Attempted Sex Assault
Updated: Sep 4, 2008 09:48 PM

The owner of a local Tae Kwon Do school is under arrest and charged with attempted sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. Police fear there may be more victims.

41-year-old Luis Castro was arrested in connection with the alleged incident in the summer of 2007.

Castro's school is located in the northeast part of the valley. He is also involved in other youth organizations.

Metro is asking others who can help the investigation to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
Warrant: Martial arts instructor was sharing bedroom with teen
Joseph Gailes
Posted: Today at 1:20 a.m.
Updated: 41 minutes ago

Fuquay-Varina, N.C. — A search warrant released this week indicates a former martial arts instructor accused of having sex with a teenage student, was sharing a bedroom with another 15-year-old when he was arrested last November.

According to a search warrant affidavit for cell phone records of Joseph Matthew Gailes, 31, of 3674 River Road, Fuquay-Varina, and the second girl, the girl's father told police that Gailes and his daughter but did not sleep together.

He said the two took turns sleeping on the couch in the living room and did not sleep in the same bedroom.

The father also told police the two would send text messages "a lot" to one another and that Gailes had provided her with the cell phone they used to message one another.

According to the warrant affidavit, the girl told police that she and Gailes "were very open with the text messages" and admitted they "could be seen as different" but said their relationship was "just friendship."

Gailes, who taught tae-kwon-do at Vision Martial Arts in Fuquay-Varina, already faces three counts of statutory rape involving an alleged relationship with another 15-year-old girl, including a sexual encounter in a hotel room during a Durham martial arts tournament last September.