In 2021, Kayla of Vancouver went to the hospital for gynecological surgery, and the nurse who took care of her was a 50-year-old woman named Melanie.
Just by one side, Kayla felt that nurse Melanie had an indescribable strangeness.
Melanie was wearing heavy mascara, her black hair was permed, and she spoke loudly and loudly the whole time.
Moreover, as a nurse, she couldn't get injections!
She tried several times, but never managed to operate correctly, and finally called a colleague to successfully complete the injection for Kayla.
What's even more bizarre is that Kayla accidentally touched nurse Melanie's chest before the operation, and Kayla quickly apologized.
The other party just laughed loudly, and even grabbed Kayla's hand and put it on his chest.
Kayla was dumbfounded, and this unruly behavior made her unbelievable.
After the operation, Kayla was in a coma for 12 hours and fell back home asleep for another 18 hours. When she woke up again, Kayla, who had forgotten about the episode, was shocked.
She saw that her body was covered with large bruises!
Thinking back to what happened before the operation, Kayla felt more and more suspicious about nurse Melanie.
Sure enough, just a few months later, the local health service sent a letter saying that in the hospital where Kayla had previously operated, there was an employee who did not have the appropriate qualifications, the employee had been fired, and the police were investigating.
Kayla was even more anxious, and her intuition told her that the unqualified employee was the strange nurse Melanie.
She immediately searched the Internet, and a picture confirmed her long-standing suspicions.
It was a picture of her hands on her chest, and Kayla recognized it as her own, but she seemed to be in a coma.
The other person in the photo is the nurse Melanie.
A few days later, Kayla received her medical records, and when the attending physician reviewed them with her, she found that she had taken a sedative, but Kayla did not need the drug at the time.
Kayla was devastated, she was almost certain she had been drugged by the nurse, and she couldn't believe what she had been given when she was unconscious...
According to the police investigation, the fake nurse who called herself Melanie, whose real name is Brigitte, is a big liar who has been cheating for thirty years, and her experience is almost a realistic version of the movie "Cat and Mouse Game".
Like leonardo's big liar in the play, in these three decades, Brigitte has used multiple pseudonyms, including Melanie, forged various identities in North America, carried a series of criminal records, fooled countless employers, and slipped away under the eyes of the police several times.
Today, let's take a look at the experience of this woman named Brigitte who has been crazy and cheating for thirty years.
Born in Quebec, Canada, Brigitte was in constant trouble as a teenager, lying and forging a false identity at the age of 19 and being sentenced to a month in prison.
However, she met an infinitely doting mother and a father who disappeared forever, and there was no long lesson when something big happened, or she continued to be lawless.
At the age of 20, she went abroad to dance to earn money, during which time she still had intermittent problems with economic crimes, either stolen credit cards or forged checks.
At the age of 30, she came to Colorado, where she attended a two-year nursing course.
She confessed to the people around her that she studied nursing herself in order to wash her whites and change her identity to find a job.
But when her criminal record came to light and the nursing school didn't let her go on, she felt shattered and ready to find a man to rely on.
Soon, she found a man to live with, became pregnant, and even found a job as a caregiver by fake identity.
Just when she thought her new life had begun, the criminal record was rediscovered, this time with more information falsification charges, and she was subsequently wanted in Colorado.
To avoid being accused, Brigitte fled from the United States back to her hometown in Canada, and not long after, she gave birth to a daughter and found a new husband in Ontario.
The new husband knows nothing about Brigitte's past, and the two are very affectionate after marriage, and she has once again started a new life smoothly.
Brigitte again found a job as a nurse at a small hospital in Ontario through forged documents, but was soon discovered again.
This time, she was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year suspension.
The path of nurses did not work, and Brigitte used a pseudonym to apply for a high school.
She didn't have any teaching qualifications at all, but she was admitted under the wrong circumstances.
During her years as a teacher, she was deeply sinful.
While working at the school, she wore heavy makeup every day, tight jeans and a low-cut top, making her colleagues and students feel very uncomfortable with an inappropriate and inappropriate image.
She knows nothing about teaching content and often teaches high school students some elementary school knowledge.
She is very fond of telling students ambiguous stories about her weekend parties, and will deliberately emphasize that she has both a husband and a boyfriend, and even show students erotic movies on movie days.
Even after many years, the students of that year were still impressed by Brigitte.
"A lot of her practices make us very uncomfortable, but what to do, we are just high school students and we don't know how to deal with it." An anonymous student recalls years later.
Brigitte also deliberately creates confrontation in school, she takes the initiative to curry favor with the more popular students, mingle with them, and then bully the students who have no sense of existence.
A student she had bullied recalled that when she was a student, she was afraid when she saw Brigitte, and she would always be critical and blame the weaker students, condescending to criticize them, saying that they were fat like pigs, giving them small shoes, and making them feel bad every minute and every second of school.
But, very suddenly, Brigitte disappeared from school,
No one knew what had happened, no one knew where she had gone.
This "teacher", who did not even have time to take a graduation photo album, actually fled again.
This time, she came to Calgary, Alberta.
She still has a crush on nurse work, or wants to find a related job, she usually helps her friends watch children earn money, shows her nursing skills by the way, and then asks friends to help her pay attention to the work of nurses.
Although her friends recognized her ability to take care of people, they never helped her find a job, and then the friend moved, and Brigitte, who had no choice but to do anything, returned to her old business - forging documents.
She first used a pseudonym to get an identity certificate, then forged nursing qualifications, searched for the biographical information of some real nurses, transferred them to herself, made up a new resume and network of relationships, and finally found a nursing job in a clinic.
But this time things failed quickly.
Within a few days, a colleague in the clinic found that Brigitte did not know basic operations at all, and the clinic immediately checked her information and found that everything was fake, and Brigitte, who had been working for a few days, was fired again.
This time it was not as simple as losing her job, because of the widespread use of facial recognition technology, Brigitte's forged identity certificate was also exposed, and she was accused of fraud for forging nurse qualifications and identity certificates.
Brigitte made herself clever and chose to escape, but the arrest warrant was not white-haired, and within a few days she was arrested.
In court, she accepted all charges in its entirety.
If Brigitte had changed his mind and become a man again, the story would have ended here.
But she didn't choose to turn back to the shore, and the first thing she did after she came out was to return to her old business, the only difference was that she didn't stick to the nursing industry anymore.
This time Brigitte traveled to Ottawa to apply for a job as a stylist at a barber salon.
I have to say that she is indeed bold and has a high degree of communication skills.
Brigitte doesn't do styling at all, but she lied that she had won several styling awards and described herself as a single mom who was financially embarrassed and worked hard to raise her daughter, which made the owner of the barber salon unable to bear to refuse her.
At work, she treats customers like this, she loves to sell miserably with customers, saying that her mother has cancer, her daughter has to rely on her to raise, and the burden of the family is on her.
Guests see that she has a difficult life and can maintain humor and optimism, it is easy to have a good feeling for her, close to her, and will also turn a blind eye to some of her small mistakes.
At this time, Brigitte will add some projects at the right time, and the guests will invisibly spend a lot of money.
After working in the barber salon for three months, the salon owner received an anonymous email.
The email exposed Brigitte's black history, saying that she had forged her identity, forged documents, and been imprisoned for posing as a nurse and teacher, and added related news links.
But even so, the Salon boss was reluctant to believe that Brigitte was a liar.
He took the initiative to find the other person and told her that he had received such an email, but he could not blame the past, as long as Brigitte could reform himself.
Brigitte tearfully apologized to her boss, saying that she could not go on like this, and she left the haircuts she bought with haircuts such as hair dryers and scissors, and disappeared ever since.
Was she touched by the kindness of her boss, and then her conscience found out?
Of course not!
She told her boss the whole time that she had been wronged, that the content of the email was untrue, and that she had never done it before.
As for why she refused the boss's retention, and also sent hundreds of yuan of haircut supplies to the boss, one is that she can't get a haircut at all, she can't use these things, and the other is that she is ready to run again, anonymous emails are coming, for her, this place is not suitable for long.
After saying goodbye to the barber salon, Brigitte began to travel back and forth between Ontario and Quebec, and lived a life of three or four years.
In 2020, she moved to Vancouver and landed a nursing job at a long-term care facility.
Here, her makeup is the thickest in the clinic, and many people are impressed by her "outrageously long" eyelashes and the addiction of having to take two sips anytime, anywhere.
At the clinic, Brigitte often boasts about her experience studying in the United States, saying that she is a high-caliber student of nursing in the United States, not only in long-term care institutions, but also in intensive care units.
She is proud of her high education and glorious resume, and she manages everything and does whatever she wants in the clinic, who is garbage in her eyes.
Because of her strong style, high profile, often saying some conceptual medical knowledge, colleagues were shocked by her, thinking that she was a nursing boss who learned to be rich in five cars, and no one dared to question her qualifications.
They all felt that the clinic should have done a careful background check, and what Brigitte said must be true.
Soon after, Brigitte left the nursing facility and went to the hospital where we talked about Kayla at the beginning.
It was from this time that Brigitte slowly revealed his horse's feet.
Once, the patient Sharon came to the hospital for hysteroscopy, she was very nervous, as a nurse, Brigitte has been with Sharon, comforting her to let her not be nervous.
But after the examination began, Sharon felt that something was wrong, the anesthesia did not work at all, and she was in a lot of pain!
Sharon hurried to tell Brigitte that she was in pain, and that the pain was so intense that the anesthetic certainly didn't work.
Looking at the patient who was in tears and facing him for help, Brigitte was expressionless, just looking at her, without any reaction at all.
After the examination, Sharon was pushed back to the ward, but Brigitte did not give her any hygiene products, or even give her a good cleaning.
Sharon herself sat on the bloody sheets, lonely and helpless, feeling completely devoid of dignity.
After a while, seeing that Brigitte really stopped caring about herself, Sharon turned to another nurse, who was horrified by what was in front of her and couldn't believe that Brigitte was nursing a patient in this way.
It didn't take long for the hospital to detect Brigitte's scam and immediately called the police, only to learn that she had applied for a nurse job under a pseudonym many times, but in fact, she did not have the corresponding qualifications.
Brigitte immediately rolled up and left, once again escaping from under the eyes of the police, this time back in Ottawa.
At this time, her deception was in full swing, and when she arrived in a new place, she used a false name, forged a false resume, and successfully found a nurse job again.
It was this job that led her to end up being caught and jailed for carrying a body of guilt...
When she arrived at the new clinic, she still followed the overriding approach she had done, trying to cover up her lack of expertise with a strong personality.
She was dismissive of her colleagues, aggressive towards patients, and once directly made patients angry to the point of crying and trembling, and patients could only turn to other nurses.
Unexpectedly, this angered Brigitte, who used the topic to play, scolded colleagues and patients, and smashed the medical records directly on the doctor.
In addition, she was also found to inject unidentified drugs into patients and repeatedly tried to draw blood from patients, resulting in pain in the patient's hands and loss of motor function.
A spate of unprofessional behavior sparked suspicion among her colleagues, one of whom felt that Brigitte was completely unprofessional and must not be a professional nurse, so she searched the Internet for Brigitte's information and found that her name was not in the database of registered nurses.
Not only that, but the work experiences that had been bragged about by Brigitte as capital were also fake, and people did not recognize her as an employee.
The nurse filed a complaint with the agency and was arrested two weeks later when Brigitte came to the clinic to pick up a paycheck.
At this time, she already had a lot of crimes on her:
Impersonate a nurse
• Attacking (needles) with a weapon to inflict bodily harm on others
Imposter (use of other people's information)
Fraud (money)
After Brigitte's arrest, the media interviewed her former employers, colleagues and customers.
The owner of the barber salon said that Brigitte's profile was particularly beautiful and perfect, and that she was hardly convinced that she was talking about everything.
Although many people say that she has a strong personality, is rude, and sometimes even arrogant and shameless,
But she is very able to bend and stretch when she is in the barber salon, always smiling in front of customers, showing weakness appropriately, and her misery is especially effective for customers, and she is not soft on making money.
Members of the school board, who had hired her as a high school teacher, recalled that not every teacher was subjected to background checks and criminal record checks, so Brigitte was a fish in the net.
But now every school will strictly investigate the information provided by the teacher, will not give any more letters, and conducting background checks and criminal record investigations has become a standard procedure and is an essential part of the application process.
In addition to her former employer, her family was also interviewed.
A relative of Brigitte said that she never understood why Brigitte was reluctant to finish a nursing education course if she wanted to be a nurse so much, after all, as long as she got a certificate, she could change her life and become a good nurse.
Yes, she has been carrying a false identity, a false resume, working and living with a mask for twenty or thirty consecutive years.
A psychiatrist gave an explanation:
First, the lie has benefited her.
Brigitte got a good job with a fake resume, and lying was the least resistant path for her compared to other ways, and she always had easy access to "the joy of deception."
Second, habit becomes nature.
Even if the lie is debunked, bringing punishment and humiliation, it may be easier to maintain old habits than to establish new ones, and she is used to going from one lie to another, constantly making a living in the scam.
Third, lying brings a sense of accomplishment.
Breaking the rules and manipulating others would give Brigitte a sense of power, a pleasure that would make her more daring, and she had lied countless times over the decades, but had only been to court a few times, and she had been satisfied more than she had been punished.
Brigitte was eventually charged with seven counts, including assaults, assaults using weapons, fraud and impersonation, all of which she confessed to and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
She is currently serving a sentence in an Ontario prison, after which she will also face charges in Vancouver.
After Brigitte's arrest, The Public began questioning the nursing care regulatory system:
Why is it that a person without any qualifications can easily hide the sky and find a highly professional job again and again?
How does the place where she was hired prove that this won't happen again? Did anyone help her cheat together? Have you been held accountable?
Don't other nurses or doctors find it strange to see this eyelashes?
Why is the employer not alert to her suspicious behavior?
Why didn't the regulator check her professional qualifications, identity information and diploma certification?
But anyone who has ever questioned any of Brigitte's information can easily debunk her lies by checking the information in time.
In response to the overwhelming doubts of the public, the relevant agencies said:
We are using this event as an opportunity to maximize system processes.
At the same time, women with similar experiences began to join the litigation team, including the two patients mentioned in the article, Kayla, who was forced to take indecent photos when she was unconscious, and Sharon, who did not work during the examination.
A patient who has had contact with Brigitte
In an interview with the media, they said that the scene was still vividly remembered, and it was not easy to completely forget the pain of being insulted without dignity.
They're always plagued by self-doubt and still insecure about the health care system, and one of the things they can't let go of is—
Why has Brigitte never been discovered?