Brigitte Cleroux’s latest fraud fell apart on Aug. 11, 2021, when a nurse at an Ottawa medical clinic decided she couldn’t take any more of the impostor’s unprofessional behaviour.
Cleroux, using the alias Melanie Smith, had made a patient so uncomfortable that she was shaking and sobbing, pleading for someone else to help with her intravenous medication, according to an agreed statement of facts prepared for the Ontario Court of Justice.
It was just two weeks into “Melanie’s” time at the clinic, but the patient’s reaction wasn’t surprising to the other nurses in the room.
“She had an intimidating presence. It was difficult
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