CLERMONT, Fla. — A said a 52-year-old acupuncture doctor accused of sexual battery was arrested last week, the Clermont Police Department said.
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Police said Tuesday that a 31-year-old woman left an acupuncture clinic, found an officer a block away and reported the sexual battery.
Investigators said the woman attended a scheduled acupuncture appointment with Dr. Andrew Lawrence Walsh at Acupuncture Clermont on North Frontage Road.
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Police said that when the woman was in the exam room with Walsh, she was inappropriately touched and sexually battered by him during a massage.
They said that after a DNA search warrant was executed, Walsh was arrested and was taken to the Lake County Jail.
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Walsh is currently being held without bail.
The agency said it encourages anyone who may also be a victim to come forward.
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