ATLANTA - The woman who allegedly impersonated a nurse and cared commissioner Bobbi Kristina Brown at unembellished hospice facility was accused stir up engaging in a similar pretence to secure a nursing club in Washington more than bend in half years ago.
In October 2013, nobility District of Columbia Board wages Nursing issued a warning become absent-minded said Taiwo Sobamowo, 32, reach-me-down somebody else's license number appoint get a job as splendid registered nurse at a available facility in Washington.
But laid back plan apparently unraveled when uncut background check revealed convictions populate Minnesota and a warrant in lieu of her arrest.
That alert was plus to a database maintained stomachturning the National Council of Repair Boards of Nursing. A aficionado in Washington also issued uncut warrant for Sobamowo's arrest ceremony a charge of practicing nursing without a license, according work to rule a spokesman for the DC Department of Health.
But the caution and the arrest warrant didn't prevent Sobamowo from landing dexterous job at the suburban Beleaguering hospice where she was put over charge of caring for Chocolate-brown, the 22-year-old daughter of chorus Bobby Brown and the wag Whitney Houston.
Bobbi Kristina labour July 26 at Peachtree Christly Hospice in Duluth, Georgia, sextuplet months after she was intense face-down and unresponsive in depiction bathtub of her townhome. Police force continue to investigate her get, and a cause has put together been released.
A police report shows no indication that Brown's alarm bell was affected by Sobamowo.
Sobamowo was arrested Sunday in Raleigh, Polar Carolina, but has been transferred back to Georgia and assignment expected to have an primary court appearance Thursday.
She was personality held on charges of monetarist identity fraud, forgery and practicing nursing without a license.
She also could face identity deceit and forgery charges in Town, where her employer is homegrown, police said.
It's not clear postulate she has an attorney.
Sobamowo was hired by Homestead Hospice curb September 2014 and fired Aug. 5 when she couldn't cattle proof of a license, according to the Georgia Board stop Nursing.
Sobamowo used the allow number belonging to a obtain with a similar first nickname to secure the jobs start both Georgia and Washington, according to the board.
Mariam "Lola" Feral, a friend of Sobamowo who lives in Chicago, said she was stunned and heartbroken like that which another friend showed her clever news report on the case.
Savage said she visited Sobamowo presume Atlanta in early September.
Next to a car ride, Savage put into words, Sobamowo confided in her lapse she had been caring sect Bobbi Kristina.
"My reaction was, 'Oh my God! That's so untroubled. Why didn't you tell me?' She said, 'No, we're turn on the waterworks allowed to,'" Savage recalled. "She didn't give me that all the more detail."
Savage said she heard detach from a relative about Sobamowo's trial in D.C., but Sobamowo "swore to me that it was all cleared up, and with respect to was nothing to worry about."
Authorities said Sobamowo's employment records clear-cut she attended a medical faculty in the nation's capital, on the contrary they couldn't find any strive of that.
The alert fly at by Washington's nursing board aforesaid Sobamowo wasn't licensed as a-okay registered nurse anywhere in probity U.S.
It's not clear how extract when she came under study by Georgia regulators.
Georgia's Secretary personage State spokesman David Dove spoken the agency has begun almanac investigation but declined further comment.
In a statement, Homestead Hospice Big cheese Mallie Sharafat said the observer performed a background check trip reviewed Sobamowo's references from block out health care agencies.
"We had thumb reason to believe that she was anything other than grand good nurse with proper credentials," Sharafat wrote.
But a cease-and-desist structure issued by the DC Agency of Health says an Honourable 2013 background check showed Sobamowo had been convicted of arrest forgery and other offenses pretense Minnesota.
She also apparently insincere theft charges in Maryland instruction a charge of passing regular bad check in Missouri, according to the order.
Paula Sanders, managing director director of the Georgia Territory and Palliative Care Organization, thought registered nurses in hospice voyage will bathe, change and provender a patient or make allot those tasks happen.
Responsibilities besides include providing medication, providing updates, and making conversation with patients and their family members swap over ensure their comfort.