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Man followed family to Florida to molest teen, police say

A family trip to Florida became a nightmare when a woman found her 14-year-old daughter in the arms of a man who traveled from Georgia to molest the teenager, police said.

Kenton Tyler Beck, 22, of Lawrenceville, had been communicating with the girl for several months through an online message app called Kik, police said.

According to the arrest report read at Beck's first-appearance court hearing , he traveled to Fort Lauderdale when he learned the girl's family was visiting and he got a room in a neighboring hotel in the 1800 block of S. Federal Highway.