article_snippet: During that time, The 16-year-old victim was punched, strangled, hit with a metal bar and cut with a box knife.
article_snippet: In one particularly violent assault, Zavala allegedly bashed The 16-year-old victim in the head with a hammer multiple times in December 2012, causing a permanent skull deformity.
article_snippet: When The 16-year-old victim tried to run from a permanent skull deformity, a permanent skull deformity struck The 16-year-old victim again in the head with the hammer and in the abdomen with a metal bar.