Fencing Coach Faces New Charges of Allegedly Victimizing 10 Year Old

A youth fencing coach already accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage female student was charged today with victimizing a different girl 10 years ago.   

Vijay Prasad, 51, was the after-school fencing coach at  through a club sport offerend by the recreation department at the . He was taken into custody this morning when prosecutor Elizabeth McClutchey told a judge of the new charges.   

Prasad's bail was raised from $200,000 to $300,000 on his old case, and bail was set at $150,000 on the new case.   

McClutchey said the new charges against Prasad involve alleged illegal sex acts with an underage female in 2002. In that case, he is charged with four counts each of sexual penetration with a foreign object and oral copulation with a minor.   

Prasad was charged in February with 13 counts, including sodomy of a person under 16 by a person over 21 and committing a lewd act on a child 14 or 15 years of age. Those crimes allegedly occurred between 2005 and 2007, McClutchey said.   

The defendant faces seven years and eight months in prison if convicted, according to the prosecutor.

–City News Service