Nigerian woman, Taiwo Sobamowo, 32,
was arrested on November 1st, in North Carolina for impersonating a
nurse. According to report,Taiwo 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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