D W v. State of Indiana

── D W v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 25S-JV-00190 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: July 23, 2025 Author: Justice Mark Massa County of Origin: Marion Category: Juvenile Decision: Affirmed D.W., born in 2006, is the second oldest of six children born to Mother. Of those siblings, D.W.’s younger brother, A.O., was born in 2015. Sometime prior to March 2020, when all the siblings lived with Mother, D.W. molested A.O. and showed pornography to the siblings. A.O. did not remember when the touching first began but noted that it occurred around once a day while Mother was away at work and was frequent enough that A.O. “got used to it.” Mother noticed the children were acting differently and suspected that D.W.