CANONSBURG, Pa. — Only Channel 11 had a camera inside the courtroom where the woman accused of posing as a nurse at facilities up and down the East Coast, including nine local facilities, appeared before a judge.
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Investigators say Shannon Womack stole the identities of real nurses to get a fake nursing license, which was used to get jobs up and down the East Coast, including at nine local nursing facilities.
Instead of being transported to the courtroom by police, Womack appeared on camera in her orange jumpsuit from inside the Washington County Correctional Facility.
Womack hid from the camera, then covered her face and cried into her hands.
She was in a cinderblock room when she appeared on video for her preliminary hearing in front of Judge James Saieva in Washington County.
After talking with her public defender, Womack waived her preliminary hearing.
11 Investigates obtained new surveillance pictures of Womack from inside a Tennessee nursing facility, where investigators say she got a job using a fake license.
Click here to view the photos obtained ONLY by Channel 11.
In the pictures, you can see her wearing a badge, dressed in scrubs and wearing a mask.
In some pictures, she has a cup of coffee in her hands. In others, she’s on a computer containing private information about patients, writing something down with a pen.
Investigators say Womack used 20 different aliases to get nursing jobs in at least 6 states and that it’s possible there are even more states investigators don’t yet know about.
11 investigates asked a legal analyst why Womack didn’t have to appear in court in person.
We were told this is within her rights and is up to the president judge of the court of common pleas, who often leaves this up to the discretion of the local magistrates.
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