Chrisitan Idle

(8-4-23) An Ansonia Police Officer, Christian Idle (38), is facing charges of strangulation and domestic violence in connection to an alleged assault of a child that happened on Thursday night.

Darke County Sheriff’s Office were called out to W. High Street Thursday night on a domestic violence complaint. An unidentified woman called and said that she had been outside of a home on W. Weller Street when Idle came out and “told her she need to get her son out of his house.” The woman and her sons had been living with Idle for several months.

The woman followed Idle back into the house and said that he –

“immediately began striking and kicking her 8-year-old son.”

The child claimed that Idle had grabbed him by his neck with two hands and that he also spanked and kicked him several times. The child had redness and bruising around his neck that appeared to be broken blood vessels.

When deputies spoke with Idle, he said he had spanked the child multiple times and then held him against a wall “by the back of his neck” before going to get his mother. Idle said he then struck the child again and “gave him a kick in the butt” when the child tried to lie.

Idle was arrested and booked into the Darke County Jail.

Idle has been an officer with the Ansonia Police Department since August 2017and is currently on administrative leave.

The case is remainsunder investigation by the Darke County Sheriff’s Office