Deputies: Florida woman punches boyfriend for being cult member

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A Florida woman was arrested last month after deputies said she removed her pants and began punching her boyfriend, who she accused of being a member of a cult.

Karen Russell, 47, was locked in her room when her live-in boyfriend returned to their Vero Beach-area home around 4 p.m. on Jan. 24 and smelled vodka in the bathroom, TCPalm reports. Russell emerged from her room five hours later and entered her boyfriend's room while he was reading his Bible, deputies said.

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Deputies said Russell took off her pants and made a vulgar remark, then began to hit the victim and scratch him with her fingernails. Russell was described as “very intoxicated,” telling deputies that her boyfriend had just joined a cult and she “didn’t know how to deal with it.”

She was arrested on a domestic battery charge.

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