(Ottawa) Dozens of false identities and 30 years pretending to be a nurse in Canada as in the United States… Unmasked and arrested last August, a 50-year-old Canadian was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday.
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Quebec native Brigitte Cleroux, who is blacklisted by the College of Nurses of Ontario as practitioners, is also known by many other names.
The 50-year-old pleaded guilty in January to seven counts, including impersonation and assault with a weapon, for administering drugs and injections to 20 patients at a fertility clinic and a dental clinic.
Ontario Court Judge Robert Wadden, quoted by the English-language public channel CBC, felt that this undermined “the confidence that our society places in our health system”.
On several occasions over the past 30 years, she has managed to disappear just before being unmasked.
Several victims – women who had undergone intro fertilization or young parents – explained their trauma after discovering that they had been treated by a fake nurse.
A court-ordered psychiatric report revealed that Brigitte Cleroux suffered from numerous personality disorders.
The latter admitted the facts, but presents herself as a victim, according to the court.