Wisconsin Nursing Home Worker Punches Resident in Head
"Every time she comes in this room, I get a biff," a ninety-three year old Wisconsin nursing home resident reported to a social worker recently.
The "biff" the woman was referencing referred to a punch and she was talking about thirty-seven year old Shawna Hardesty, a Wisconsin nursing assistant. According to a criminal complaint, Hardesty reportedly entered the resident's room at St. Michael's Lutheran Home in Fountain City, Wisconsin on August 2, 2010 and punched the resident three times. A police officer who saw the resident later in the day immediately noticed a "baseball-sized bruise" on the woman's forehead.
Hardesty was charged with felony intentional abuse of a nursing home patient. She was suspended without pay within an hour of the abuse complaint and was fired approximately one week later, after an internal investigation concluded.
