Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Woman’s Credit Cards As She Lied on Her Death Bed
Some acts are beyond shameful and if true, this is clearly going to be one of them. A hospital worker in the business of saving and protecting lives is accused of taking credit card numbers from a patient who was going to die just a few hours later. The woman, according to police, used the credit cards to buy airline tickets, pay her phone bill and even buy shoes for a wedding.
Margaret Nunn, a patient registration representative at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, is going to be on trial for identity theft and seven counts of credit card fraud. She is accused of stealing $1,186 from the woman who was going to die shortly thereafter. The hospital did an investigation and realized that Nunn had access to the woman’s personal information and credit cards when she arrived to the emergency room on June 10.
Police say that Nunn has confessed to taking down the woman’s credit card information and driver’s license number when she checked into the hospital. Kim Savage, a spokeswoman for Sarasota Memorial Hospital, said that Nunn was initially suspended. She said that after the investigation was complete, she was fired on June 29.
“It was an isolated individual,” Savage said. “In this case, she just wrote down the information while she was registering the patient.”
Nunn is currently incarcerated at the Sarasota City jail on $10,000 bond. The case make you wonder – how often does this kind of thing happen anyway?
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She needs to be locked up for a long time. I guess she figured the woman was going to die and wouldn’t need her credit card.
Jacqueline
July 27, 2012 at 7:21 pm
the crime doesn’t warrant being locked up for a very long time probation Yes have her see a mental health expert for being dumb to pay her phone or buy anything that could be traced back to her
MALIK
July 27, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Shameful
The Truth
July 27, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Hello. I know this is a troublesome verb – animate: lie, lay lain. The caption could have been written “…as she lay on her deathbed,” “… as she lay dying,” “…as the patient was dying.” If you don’t know the correct form of the verb, just say it a different way. But…” as she lied” means as she was telling a lie. Born in the Deep South, I grew up in a Black English-speaking community and have spoken it for nearly eighty years, but my good old Black teachers–long before schoos were integrated–made me learn Standard American English. God Bless Them.
Mary Burnette
July 27, 2012 at 8:40 pm
For that reason, I don’t log on to these sites (kulturekritic, yourblackworld, etc.) as much anymore! Being an editor, it is sometimes very hard for me to read this stuff. That one was about the worse I’ve ever seen! Glad it’s not just me! They need a good proofreader!
Dorothy
July 27, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Preach. I was annoyed at the same error.
Lenny
July 28, 2012 at 12:57 am
This frequent misunderstanding and misuse of English makes me dislike reading this site. People also lack the ability to spell simple words and mix up “passed” and “past” and “there,” “they’re” and “their.” Sometimes, the commenters can be forgiven for not previewing what they write before they “send,” but a blogger gets no such pass. My first question when I read the caption was, “Who Lied?”
Ruby fromNJ
July 28, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Love your response! I too am more than happy that my black English teachers from down south taught me to use proper English! God Bless them all!
M Mitchell
July 30, 2012 at 8:43 am
Please excuse the typo: It’s schools–not schoos. We all make mistakes, don’t we?
Mary Burnette
July 27, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Yes what this lady did was very shameful. Hope she asks God for forgiveness Being an ex crook ex con man. who has bulked elderly people out of ten’s of thousands people would say that’s there life savings… If someone about to die can have that type of cash well who can use it better me or the state?
MALIK
July 27, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Now, let’s do the math: was a continuous paycheck worth losing over $1,186??? Why do people do stupid things?
Danita Johnson
July 27, 2012 at 9:02 pm
As she LIED on her deathbed?
Uh uh uh …
***SMH***
Reneegede
July 27, 2012 at 9:04 pm
The sad part is this idiot does not value people.You just do not do some shady s**t like this.I hope the lady who she stole from torments her in her dreams for the rest of her d**n life!
kimberly
July 27, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Please check your grammar wth regard to the word lay.
gina
July 27, 2012 at 9:28 pm
wow!!!I’m not surprised at all.but i’m very happy she got caught..that’s the lowest of the low ..dog dog dirty dog !!she will burn in h**l for this..
sheila
July 27, 2012 at 9:48 pm
I visited the cemetery after work @7am no place in the area to buy flowers; but as usual there were, fresh&artificial flowers in the area i was in, but i quickly dropped the very thought of belittleing myself, and disrepecting the people and the very reason i was there in the first place! The very thought of taking something in that manner, honestly scared me!!! SERIOUSLY!
Sandra
July 27, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Greed and temptation often entrapped people when they allow needs and desires to supercede them from thinking professionally,rationally and logically. Thankfully, this lady was caught before she used the credit card to the maximum. I wonder how many other cases (patients)are out there where she has taken advantage of due to their inability to monitor and control her actions. It’s hard to believe that she risked her professional career and freedom for so little money.
MillieG1
July 27, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Poverty creates desperation. There is great poverty growing here in ‘America’. Of course “blacks” will suffer poverty in greater numbers than our Caucasian “white” counterparts, and the Hispanics “browns” will be right on our heels! When you compound poverty with ignorance, stupidity, and lacked education, you get people who have been prompted for the steel cages of the white man’s money making prison systems. When people become desperate they will resort to almost anything. The worse being murder of another human, which is a lot less than stealing from a dying person. The future looks bleak for most of us, but direly faster for many!
WizardG
July 27, 2012 at 11:37 pm
“The worse being murder of another human, which is a lot less than stealing from a dying person.”
I meant a lot worse of course.
WizardG
July 27, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Your grammar sucks. It shouldn’t be ‘as she lied on her death bed’. It should be ‘as she lay on her death bed’. Please hire an editor.
Lenny
July 28, 2012 at 12:56 am
BLACK WOMEN!! nuff said!!
nyclater
July 28, 2012 at 2:54 am
Black women what?? That we are beautiful, smart, and resilient……One individual can’t describe the strength of African American woman!! Remember we are the realness….the foundation! Get it right!
Jay
July 29, 2012 at 7:14 pm
I saw that error and it bothers me terribly when people do not use correct English. As a matter of fact, it causes me to cringe. I’m glad that so many responded to Mary Burnett’s post.
@Topic – How can one be so stupid?? This is why I hand my purse off to one of my adult children whenever I have had to go to an emergency room. I hope they throw the book at her. She is another embarrassment to Black women.
corbin56
July 28, 2012 at 2:15 pm
This is sad.
She applied probably begging for a job.
Now a bad rep and no job.
Wake up people, we cannot continue like this!
Taritaritari5
July 29, 2012 at 1:56 am
Tsk, tsk, tsk! The grammar is killing me! Please, please, please use the proper form of the verb lie! Reading this headline was like listening to fingernails being “drugged” across a chalk board!
Yes I am aware that “drugged” s incorrect, just wanted to drive my point home as to how annoying this really is! If this site is in need of an editor or a copy reader, I would be more than happy to assist!
M. Mitchell
M Mitchell
July 30, 2012 at 8:40 am
I believe everyone understood it! otherwise you wouldn’t be posting a
comment. But i am please to read the comment about the Lie lay lied
correction !! thank u !!! glad to be informed about this poor judement
of the hospital worker.
shirl
July 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Thanks to all of you who noticed the grammar faux pas!
Since integration African-American children speak as if they just walked off the slave plantation. It is very embarassing!
About the thief, this was not her first time, just her first time getting caught’
Elizabeth
July 31, 2012 at 4:05 pm