Indiana CNA "Slugs" Nursing Home Resident, Now Faces Battery Charge
Karen Buck, a former certified nursing assistant (CNA) at Williamsburg Village nursing home, now doing business as Golden Living Center, faces an April 2009 trial on the felony charge of punching a 94 year old nursing home resident in the mouth. Buck allegedly punched Vera Talbott on June 2, 2007 after Ms. Talbott spit at her.
Ms. Talbott entered the facility after suffering a stroke. Her daughter visited her daily. One Saturday, her daughter found Ms. Talbott with a red face, food sitting in front of her, and drugged almost unconscious. The facility refused to tell her what was wrong with her mother's face. After her daughter left the facility, a nurse called her and told her they were sending her mother to the hospital and that a CNA had hit her. A detective later told her daughter that a fellow CNA saw Buck "slug and slap" Ms. Talbott in the face two or three times. Ms. Talbott suffered a black eye and other facial bruises.
Ms. Talbott died on September 2, 2007.
