Diane Turbyfill reports:
A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people.
Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense.
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She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia at the time of the incidents.
Those connections gave her access to the people she victimized, members of her church.
Taylor offered to help two elderly members of the congregation who were having medical issues. She helped treat them, looked in on them, changed bandages and then began to access their personal information to her benefit, Gaston County Assistant District Attorney Beth Stockwell said.
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