Longtime cop beat wife regularly, knocked out her eye: prosecutors

An Indianapolis cop is accused of beating his wife on multiple occasions, including one thrashing that cost the woman her eye, Indiana prosecutors said.

Jason D. Norman is also accused of breaking his wife’s nose, according to the Indy Star, which reported the 41-year-old officer allegedly subject his accuser to two years of violence.

The 14-year-veteran has reportedly been suspended from the force and charged with two felony counts of domestic battery and criminal confinement, as well as a misdemeanor battery count.

Norman wasn’t charged in the Feb. 25 incident that cost the unidentified woman her eye. Police said she could not recall “salient details” of that event, which landed her in Ascension St. Vincent Hospital.

Norman told investigators his wife was injured when she slipped in the bathtub. It was that incident that launched an investigation leading to the aforementioned charges against the officer.

One of the abuses allegedly incurred by the victim occurred in August when Norman got “worked up watching a political show with the volume loud” and pulled his wife off the sofa by her leg, causing a bruise to her knee. Prosecutors likened the sudden pulling motion to starting a lawnmower. Norman then told his wife to “walk it off” and went back to watching TV, prosecutors claimed.

The victim sent a photo of her bruised leg to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Neither the police department or the attorneys in the case commented on the Indy Star’s report.