Nurse assistant charged with molesting senior

A nurse assistant faces a quarter-century behind bars for allegedly molesting an incapacitated elderly woman at a nursing home in Van Buren County.

The defendant, Brandon Jennings, 21, was indicted this past week by the Van Buren County grand jury and later picked up on the Class A felony at his home in White County. He is being held at Van Buren County Jail awaiting arraignment before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley on June 25 at the courthouse in Spencer.

Jennings is charged with inappropriately touching a female resident at the Generations Nursing Home in Spencer. The victim, who was over 70 years of age, has since died from causes other than the molestation.

While the victim is dead and will not be able to testify against her allegedly molester, there were reportedly fellow workers at the health care facility who witnessed the incident and later reported what they saw to the State Department of Health. The eyewitness report led to an investigation and the ultimate indictment of Jennings.