Indiana man Kyle A. Kafoure has been sentenced to 7 years for a series of violent offenses, culminating in a domestic battery charge that has left the community of Hancock County shaken; the announcement came yesterday from the county’s Prosecutor’s Office. In a stark recount of the case, Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton released a statement on social media detailing the sentence for Kafoure, who pleaded guilty to a Level 5 felony count of domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, along with four counts of Level 6 felony domestic battery and one count of criminal mischief, as per the Prosecutor’s Office Facebook post.
The conviction stems from an incident last August, when Kafoure’s violent outburst led to the victim seeking medical attention; additional property damage occurred within the victim’s residence involving two televisions, making the event a multi-layered crime scene that deputies and the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office have been piecing together ever since, culminating in the recent court decision. According to the same social media release, Kafoure had to be forcibly removed from a previous court hearing after directing profanities at the court, adding to the complexity of his legal struggle that ended in this most recent seven-year imprisonment directive…