Alex Castro, 17, recently came out to feed her four horses in the barn when she discovered backward swastikas painted on two of the buildings and her father’s work truck.

The former Parkland High School student, now a PA Cyber School student, told The Press her family has owned the property in North Whitehall about a year and a half.

Castro has no idea who painted the symbols, associated with Nazism, sometime between the evening of Aug. 27 and early morning on Aug. 28.

The symbols were painted on the garage door to the barn, her father’s office building and all four sides of her father’s work truck.

In addition, the driver’s side window of the truck was smashed.

“I don’t know why anyone would do this,” she said. “If someone has a problem with me, they should just confront me with it.”

Castro said the four horses inside the barn on her family’s property are rescues.

“Since we owned the property, we have started a horse rescue,” she said. “We go to livestock auctions and save miniature and full-size horses from being meat.”

Castro’s dad, Fred, called the police to report the vandalism. He also spoke with The Press.

“The more we look at them, the more we think it is juveniles,” Fred Castro said. “I had just turned off the security lights thinking they were too bright for the neighbors.

“My truck has been parked outside the last year and a half.

“I have never put it inside the pole building once.”

Three weeks ago, someone threw a piece of a paver through the barn’s window, he said.

They have also received several nuisance complaints about their horses, even their dog, but figured it was an overly concerned passer-by.

“Ever single time we get a new horse or do some improvement on the property, somebody trespasses onto it,” Fred Castro said.