A man was arrested Friday after he punched a 17-year-old Hobe Sound in the face several times after breaking into her house, deputies said.
The suspect, Antonio Amaya-Guevara, 42, was later taken into custody in Palm Beach County.
“She’s a quiet girl. She waves to me here and there,” neighbor Germaine Patterson said.
He said the victim was his friend’s daughter.
“I asked him what happened, and he told me somebody broke into his house and put his hands on his daughter,” Patterson said.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said at about 2 p.m. Amaya-Guevara broke in through a back door while the teen was home alone.
Deputies said she heard noises and thought her dad had hired a maintenance man.
It wasn’t until she FaceTimed her dad that she realized what was happening.
“She is still on FaceTime with dad, snapping screenshots of the suspect as the suspect is leaving,” Martin County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy John Budensiek said. “At some point, the suspect became more and more agitated.”