Man pretended to be doctor to make new friends

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AN unemployed man pretended to be a doctor at Brisbane’s children’s hospital to make friends and kept the deception going after starting a fling with a security staffer.

Nicholas Brett Delaney stole security credentials and walked the halls of the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital and Ronald McDonald House between May and December last year, Brisbane Magistrates Court heard on Monday.

But during his months posing as a surgeon, he never interacted with patients and did not steal or tamper with any medication, his solicitor Nicholas Hanly told the court.

He was visiting the hospital once or twice a week in the opening month of his fraud but it was then that “the plot thickened”, Mr Hanly told the court.

He met a man through the gay dating app Grindr and during conversations said he was Dr Nick Delaney.

“This person then said that he was a security officer at the (Lady) Cilento hospital,” Mr Hanly said. “Mr Delaney felt as though he needed to keep up the ruse as they continued, for the entire period of the offending, a casual relationship.”

Delaney’s deception came unstuck when he asked the security guard to help him renew his credentials and inquiries were made.
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can't tell if kind or creepy.

A remorseful Delaney, who is gay and has a mild intellectual impairment, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud and one of entering a premises and committing an indictable offence.

Kudos to a man with an intellectual disability being mistaken for a surgeon though

He was just looking for a friend, I hope they take it easy on him...

It says in the article,

"He was fined $3000 but no conviction was recorded."

that's good. Hopefully he can afford the $3000

Probably not. Maybe the public will fund him.

I'm not sure this would qualify for crowdfunding but people do have a soft spot for hard luck cases