Nigerian woman who treated Bobbi Kristina in a hospice just weeks before her death arrested for impersonating a nurse
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
