One other spherical of prison expenses has been filed in B.C. in opposition to a serial impostor with an extended historical past of posing as a nurse, this time associated to her transient employment at a non-public surgical procedure clinic within the Victoria space.
Brigitte Cleroux was charged final week with fraud over $5,000, impersonation, utilizing cast paperwork and assault for alleged offences dedicated in View Royal, B.C., within the fall of 2020.
The 51-year-old was employed as a nurse on the personal View Royal Surgical Clinic for 3 weeks in November 2020, administration on the time confirmed. The ability has since been taken over by Island Well being and introduced into the general public system.
A spokesperson for West Shore RCMP, which led the investigation, declined to supply additional particulars whereas the matter is earlier than the courts.
Cleroux has by no means had a legitimate nursing licence or accomplished nursing faculty, however over the past 20 years, she has been accused or convicted of pretending to be a nurse in Colorado, Ontario, Alberta and B.C.
She at the moment faces 17 expenses in Vancouver, together with allegations of assaulting 10 sufferers, associated to her yr working as a perioperative nurse at B.C. Girls’s Hospital. She has additionally been charged with impersonation and fraud in opposition to a dental surgeon in Surrey, about 34 kilometres southeast of Vancouver.
Cleroux took the job at View Royal whereas she was on paid administrative depart from B.C. Girls’s Hospital due to complaints about inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour with co-workers and sufferers, court docket paperwork filed by the hospital’s operator counsel.
She at the moment sits in an Ontario jail, serving a seven-year sentence for posing as a nurse at two Ottawa clinics in the summertime of 2021. In all, she has amassed no less than 67 prison convictions as an grownup.
Cleroux remains to be wished in Colorado, accused of pretending to be a nurse in Colorado Springs, and there are two energetic warrants for her arrest in Broward County, Fla.
A date has but to be set for Cleroux’s first look on the View Royal expenses. Her prison defence lawyer declined to remark.