A Canadian girl who spent a long time impersonating nurses and different experts by using the use of faux identities turned into sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for fraud.

Brigitte Cleroux, 50, became arrested in Ottawa remaining August after her cutting-edge deceit became located via a colleague searching to report a complaint in opposition to her with a governing body for nurses, and an imposter alert popped up.

She pleaded guilty in January to seven offenses inclusive of impersonation and assault with a weapon — for administrating medicine and injections to twenty sufferers at a fertility clinic and a dental health center.

Ontario Court Justice Robert Wadden was quoted by public broadcaster CBC as saying her fraud struck “at the core of the trust our society puts in our health-care system.”

Minus credit for time spent in detention awaiting trial, Cleroux must serve five years and eight months in a federal penitentiary, her lawyer told AFP.

Cleroux had reportedly committed comparable frauds for the duration of her grownup life, the usage of cast resumes and faux identification cards with dozens of aliases and accumulating an extended criminal document.

When located out, she would every so often disappear earlier than she will be held accountable.

Cleroux nevertheless faces prosecution on separate charges of having posed as a nurse at a British Columbia clinic for a yr.

Several patients have also launched a lawsuit against the British Columbia fitness authority for failing to affirm her nursing credentials whilst employing her.