Fencing coach arrested in sexual abuse of student

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Police have arrested a fencing coach on charges of sexually abusing a student at a private Baltimore County athletic facility and are asking other potential victims to come forward.

Alan Merritt Arrowsmith, 32, engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl whom he had been coaching at the Baltimore Fencing Center on West Aylesbury Road in Timonium, county police said.

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