INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A 15-year-old who deputies said used his arm cast to beat a woman in a fight over a girl who had been reported missing, was detained Wednesday.
The teen told the woman “if she wants to fight like a man, he’ll treat her like a man,” reports show. Deputies said the bleeding woman, who is the teen’s older sister, had a large cut to her neck, a knot on her forehead and cuts and scrapes to her right wrist and forearm.
Deputies arrested the 15-year-old on a charge of aggravated battery. It was unclear if the teen was being held at the Indian River County Jail or taken to a juvenile detention center.
The woman told her mother to call Indian River County deputies about noon Wednesday after she found a girl who was reported missing lying on a bed in her brother’s room. The woman told the youth to stay at the residence because law enforcement was looking for her, reports show.
The boy then came to the home, located in the 600 block of 20th Place Southwest. The boy walked inside and told the juvenile who was reported missing to go with him.
The relationship between the boy and the youth was not available.
When the teen’s older sister tried to stop the two from leaving, the boy attacked the woman, reports show. Deputies said the teenager slammed the woman into furniture and began bashing her head with his cast.
The cast was very hard, blunt object the teen used to hurt his older sister, deputies said. The teen punched and kneed the woman before throwing her into a wall-hung mirror, which shattered, reports show.
Deputies responded to the home and took the missing girl into custody. Deputies then arrested the teen who they said beat his sister.