32 year old Nigerian woman Taiwo Sobamowo was arrested on November 1st in North Carolina for impersonating a nurse. She was one of the nurses who treated a comatose Bobbi Kristina Brown
in the last month of her life and they just discovered that Taiwo wasn't a medical professional at all.
Authorities
say Sobamowo used the identity number of an actual nurse with a similar
name in order to get a job at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth,
Georgia, where Brown died this past July. Arresting
papers list her as the person in charge for Brown's care. Authorities
have not said whether Brown's livelihood was impacted by Sobamowo's lack
of training.
Investigators told Fox 5 Atlanta that
they don't believe Sobamowo was trying to get close to the Brown
family, since she is suspected of having pulled this con before at other
medical centers.
However,
there was a controversy when photos leaked of Bobbi Kristina on her
death bed, and the person behind those private pictures has never been
identified.
Sobamowo
is also facing charges of forgery and identity theft, and the George
Board of Nursing is reportedly looking into how she got away with
passing herself off as a licensed medical professional.
Authorities reportedly started investigating Sobawowo in September, after receiving a tip. Fox
5 reports that Sobamowo recently fled Georgia, but authorities were
able to track her down to North Carolina where she was arrested on
Sunday.
She is suspected of carrying off a similar con in the Washington, DC area.
Homestead
Hospice and Palliative Care, the company which contracts nurses to work
for Peachtree Christian, told Fox 5 that they were 'shocked and
dismayed that she had issued with her licensing'
The company said Sobamowo was fired immediately after they found out about the con.
Source: Mail Online/Fox 5 Atlanta
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