A woman who has pleaded guilty to impersonating a nurse in Ontario is facing new charges in B.C. relating to events at a Vancouver Island clinic.
Brigitte Cleroux has been charged with fraud over $5,000, impersonation, use of forged documents and assault in connection with a View Royal medical clinic, RCMP confirmed. The alleged offence took place in 2020.
Cleroux is facing charges in Vancouver of assault, assault with a weapon, fraud over $5,000, using forged documents and impersonation with intent to gain advantage.
There is also a civil court action running in tandem with proceedings in Ontario and B.C.
Vancouver Police Department launched their months-long investigation after receiving reports of a B.C. Women’s Hospital employee who was allegedly fraudulently identifying herself as a nurse between June 2020 and June 2021.
VPD’s Financial Crime Unit alleges Cleroux fraudulently used the name of a real nurse while providing medical care to patients at the hospital.
Cleroux is currently in prison in Ontario on a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to seven charges, including assault, assault with a weapon, fraud and impersonation.
Police in Ottawa began their investigation after being told a woman had used aliases and assumed the identities of registered nurses. Cleroux allegedly carried out nursing duties at a medical and dental clinic in the nation's capital.
“Some of those duties included the administration of medications, including injections, to patients,” Ottawa police said.
Cleroux has one lawyer in Ontario. She has also fired another who was representing her in B.C.
At one point, Cleroux suggested she would represent herself in court.
“I don’t think so,” Judge Ellen Gordon countered.
Cleroux is due in Vancouver court Aug. 21 to fix a court date and in Surrey Aug. 30 for a bail hearing.
A date has yet to be set for her first appearance on the View Royal charges.
