Teen Girl Defends Against Attacker

 
The following is a story taken from a news report dated 5/26/25:

 

A 13-year-old girl in California fought off a man using her jiu-jitsu training and broke his ankle when he tried attacking her on her walk home from school.

Police in Carmel, Calif., are now looking for the teen’s attacker. Police say the suspect ambushed the girl by hiding between two parked cars and stepping out to punch her in the face...

For three years, the 13-year-old has been taking jiu-jitsu classes at the Carmel Youth Center with Michael Blackburn, who teaches at the center...The teen applied what she learned in her class when the man tried to attack her...

“She punched him, she got him in a headlock, kneed him a couple of times, spun him around, threw him on the ground,” Blackburn said...“She had stepped on his foot doing all this, and when she threw him on the ground, he broke his ankle.”

The teen was able to run home safely but her attacker is still on the loose. According to the local outlets, Carmel police do not have any solid leads on the man but have released a sketch of what they believe he looks like. 

The suspect is believed to be around 6 feet tall, muscular and now has an injury to his left foot inflicted by the teen who fought back...

 

As stated, the unnamed teenage girl has been training in an unspecified style of jiu-jitsu for three years. This ended well, of course, but the 6-foot burly perp is still out there limping around. I'll edit in an update if they nab this slimeball.  This shouldn't happen to anyone, least of all a child.

Amazing—thirteen years old! Kudos to Sensei Blackburn and his Carmel-by-the-Sea dojo for teaching this young lady right.