Magistrate convicts 39-year-old man in violent domestic battery case

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Marion County magistrate on Thursday found a 39-year-old Indianapolis man guilty of multiple charges for violently assaulting a woman inside her home in August 2024, according to the prosecutor and online court records.

Aaron Gordy was convicted of aggravated battery; domestic battery resulting in serious bodily Injury; domestic battery by means of a deadly weapon; and domestic battery.

A news release from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called Aug. 28 to Valley Creek Lane after the woman arrived at her mother’s house following a domestic disturbance that seriously injured the woman’s eye.

Officers arrived to find medics treating the woman, who was covered in blood.

The mother told investigators that her daughter arrived with her 2-year-old son after being physically attacked by Gordy, whom she had previously been in a relationship with.

During the investigation, an officer heard the child, who was covered in his mother’s blood, say, “Daddy was hitting mommy.”

Investigators also found that Gordy and the woman had gotten into an argument at her home, during which Gordy struck her multiple times in her right eye with a key.

After the incident, the woman drove herself and her son to her mother’s house for help.

Judge Jeffrey Marchal was scheduled to sentence Gordy on Aug. 19 in Marion Superior Court 31.

Help is available for victims of domestic violence. Below is a list of suggested resources on the Domestic Violence Network website:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788
• National Domestic Violence Hotline en español: 800-799-7233 o texto “START” al 88788
• Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence: 24-hour hotline available at 800-332-7385
• Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking
• La Plaza Indy
• The Julian Center
• Indiana Child Abuse Hotline: 800-800-5556
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-4673

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