Serial nurse impersonator Brigitte Cleroux was sentenced to seven years in prison for a long list of crimes committed in B.C. between 2019 and 2021, including impersonation, forgery, fraud, theft, assault and assault with a weapon.
Cleroux, 52, used stolen and forged documents to get work as a dental assistant in Surrey, B.C., and as a nurse at B.C. Women’s Hospital in Vancouver and at the private View Royal Surgical Centre in Victoria.
The assault and assault with a weapon charges relate to her injecting patients who did not consent to being treated by an unlicensed nurse.
Cleroux has previously been convicted of similar crimes in Quebec, Alberta and Ontario and is currently serving a seven-year prison term in Ontario for impersonating a nurse at two Ottawa clinics.
Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes walked the court through a complicated sentencing decision on the 11 charges Cleroux pleaded guilty to.
Holmes said the overall effect of her sentencing decision will be to extend Cleroux’s Ontario jail time by three to four years because only a portion of the B.C. time is to be served consecutively to the Ontario term.
More to come.