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A Florida family is seeking answers after discovering their loved one's caregiver, who claimed to be a licensed practical nurse (LPN), was an impostor who allegedly failed to provide critical care in the hours before the veteran's death.
Retired U.S. Marine Sgt. Kensworth Moody, who required around-the-clock care and had a feeding tube and tracheotomy, died in October 2024 at his Fleming Island home while under the supervision of a man who falsely identified himself as an LPN. Home surveillance footage revealed the impostor failed to act when Moody showed signs of respiratory distress, according to state records.
Moody’s daughter, Kendra Moody, says she awoke to loud music coming from her father’s room the morning of Oct. 13, 2024.
“I looked at the camera in his room before I came down here and I saw the nurse. He was looking at his pulse ox machine just with a confused look on his face,” Kendra Moody said. “When I got down here, I touched my dad, and he was freezing cold.”
She says surveillance videos she later reviewed showed her father started having trouble breathing and became unresponsive two hours earlier.
“He was gasping for air, and you can hear the pulse ox machine alarming and going off,” Kendra Moody said. “And then after that, you don't hear it go off anymore, and you don't see his chest rise or fall, and he just was unresponsive.”
She says the man who claimed to be a nurse never called 911.
“I did,” Kendra Moody said. “He just completely didn't do anything.”
By the time paramedics arrived, it was too late. Her father was pronounced dead.
“For you to walk into a house and pretend that you're a nurse to take care of somebody who's sick. What do you expect to happen?” Kendra Moody said.
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