A Louisiana man used Facebook to apologize to the father of a 16-year-old girl he tried to rape, police said.

Adrian Jauregui, 36, remains held without bail Tuesday following his arrest on Sunday for an alleged attempted rape earlier that day at a friend’s residence in Gretna, police told the Times-Picayune.

Capt. Russell Lloyd, a police spokesman, told the newspaper that Jauregui awoke early Sunday after spending the night at the home and sneaked into the bedroom of his friend’s teenage daughter as she slept.

The 16-year-old girl later told police she woke up to find Jauregui on top of her as he groped her and tried to kiss her, telling the teen he wanted to impregnate her. But the teen managed to fight Jauregui off, police said.

“The 16-year-old fights back, and she won the battle,” Lloyd told the newspaper. “She was able to fight him off.”

The girl’s father ran into her bedroom after hearing her scream and pulled Jauregui off his daughter. Jauregui then ran out of the home, Lloyd said.

Jauregui, who also allegedly bit the girl on her arm and torso, was later arrested at his home in Kenner. He admitted to investigators that he had “done something wrong,” Lloyd said, and is also accused of sending a Facebook message to the girl’s father apologizing for the attack.

Jauregui, who is facing charges of attempted aggravated rape and unrelated fugitive counts, remained held without bail Tuesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, jail records show.