The new charges were sworn in Vancouver provincial court on Wednesday, according to court records. Cleroux, 50, is now charged with eight counts of assault with a weapon, three counts of assault, four counts of using a forged document and one count of fraud over $5,000 and personation for gain. Vancouver police have not yet released more information about the charges, but the dates of the alleged offenses span Cleroux’s entire tenure at the hospital, from June 2020 to June 2021. The fraud and impersonation charges against Cleroux were first announced in Vancouver in November. She worked as a perioperative nurse at the hospital, assisting with an untold number of surgeries. Several patients told the CBC that he provided them with pain medication or sedation during their procedure. Spokesmen for the hospital’s operator, the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), declined to comment Friday on the new allegations against Cleroux. They showed instead of written statement of December which says the hospital has done a review to make sure there are no more fraudsters in the system and that this incident serves as “an unfortunate reminder that people with criminal intent exist in our world and can be motivated to harm both people and Organisations”.
At least 67 adult convictions
This is not the first time Cleroux has been charged with crimes related to impersonation. She has a long criminal history across North America, with at least 67 convictions as an adult, including several for impersonating a nurse or teacher. He is still wanted on two active warrants in Florida and one in Colorado. Cleroux is currently in prison after serving a seven-year sentence for crimes including impersonation, assault with a weapon and assault related to the time she posed as a nurse at a fertility clinic and dental clinic in Ottawa for a few weeks in the summer of 2021. Brigitte Cleroux in an earlier photo shared by the College of Nurses of Ontario. (College of Nurses of Ontario) Patients from BC Women’s Hospital have filed a class action lawsuit accusing PHSA of negligence. In response to those allegations, PHSA denies that administrators should have known Cleroux was a fake — and says it took all reasonable steps to confirm she was a registered nurse. PHSA’s response also reveals that Cleroux’s colleagues began complaining that she was rude and disrespectful within weeks of starting at the hospital. He was placed on administrative leave for a few weeks in fall 2020 while administrators investigated five separate incidents, including using force on a patient and saying he wanted to “punch or hit” a colleague in the face, according to PHSA’s response. That behavior eventually led to a one-day suspension, after which she was allowed to return to work, the health authority says. During her leave from the hospital, Cleroux appears to have found more nursing work with BC Management at Victoria’s private View Royal Surgical Clinic, confirming she worked there for three weeks in November 2020.
