Chronic Aurora domestic abuser gets 3.5 years

A chronic domestic abuser from Aurora was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for hitting a woman, spitting on her, throwing a remote at her, breaking her TV and trying to prevent her from calling police.

Tyler D. McClarty, 26, of the 400 block of Blackhawk Street, was arrested on May 25 and charged with several felony counts of domestic abuse against a 31-year-old woman, including one offense for having four or more previous domestic violence convictions, according to Kane County court records.

McClarty faced a maximum sentence of seven years in prison; under a guilty plea recently accepted by Judge Thomas Stanfa, McClarty also will be on parole for four years after his prison term.

Court records show McClarty's first of four previous convictions was in 2007 and charges from three other domestic arrests were dropped.

The 5-foot-6, 127-pound McClarty was sentenced to 33 days in jail for a July 2007 misdemeanor domestic battery arrest and got more jail and probation for felony aggravated battery to a pregnant person for an Aug. 31, 2007 offense, records show. The victim in this case was a different woman than McClarty's most recent offense.

He served 78 days jail and got two years of probation for a February 2011 felony domestic violence arrest in Aurora, records show, and he was arrested on domestic battery charges in May 2010, March 2011 and May 2011. Charges in those three cases were dismissed by prosecutors, records show.

McClarty was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to a November 2012 felony aggravated domestic battery against the same victim as the May 2015 offense, records show.

Under state law, McClarty can have his sentence halved for good behavior in prison.

He also gets credit for about two months served at the Kane County jail while the case was pending.