BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge man is accused of raping a woman on the front porch of her friend's apartment along Florida Boulevard in late August. 

Matthew Thiel, 49, was arrested Tuesday by Baton Rouge Police Department. 

According to an arrest affidavit, a woman was pet-sitting for her friend's cat at an apartment along Florida Boulevard. When she arrived at the apartment around noon on Aug. 29, she saw Thiel, whom she knew through a mutual friend, sitting on the front porch. 

After a brief conversation, the woman went inside to get the cat food. When she came back outside and bent down to feed the cat, Thiel allegedly attacked her and raped her. 

Thiel faces one count of forcible rape.