Police in San Jose last week arrested a martial arts instructor on charges of sexual assault involving a child, according to the police department release Tuesday.

Ernest Ramirez, 54, of San Jose was arrested and booked into Santa Clara County jail on June 9, police said. He faces multiple aggravated sexual assault charges, including one count of rape of a child under 14 and four counts of oral copulation on a child under 14 by force or fear.

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Ramirez owned and operated Extreme Martial Arts on Elm Street in downtown San Jose as well as an after-school program for Trace Elementary School in San Jose, where he met the victim, police said.

The victim attended the after-school program between August 2020 and June 2021, when the sexual assaults occurred, police said. The victim h

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