A seventeen-year-old Chattooga County teen was charged with battery after being accused of striking a victim in the face with his fist. The incident happened last Tuesday at a residence on Haywood Valley Road.  A responding deputy spoke with the victim who said that the assailant had accused her of taking his belongings.  The victim’s mother had called 911 about the incident.  The alleged assailant lives across the road from the victim.  The deputy went across the road and spoke with the teen who said that he as “sick of his things turning up missing”.  The teen denied hitting the girl in the face, but the responding deputy reported that the victim showed signs of being hit in the face.  The teen assailant’s father told the deputy that his son has a history of violence and “that it had only been getting worse”.  Wesley Elijah Sweet was arrested and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on battery charges.