SEX RAPS ON KARATE TEACHER DROPPED

Robert Kim, a 38 year old well-known Staten Island karate teacher accused of repeatedly molesting a pair of female students over two years beginning when they were 13 and 14, copped a pleas to a disorderly conduct charges on the eve of trial yesterday.  Prosecutors have dropped 149 counts of sex abuse and other charges against him.  The two girls had told authorities that Kim repeatedly groped their breasts and buttocks under their karate uniforms from June 2001 to July 2003.  

(New York)