​State Employee Stole $130K From Bucks Co. Woman Who Killed Kids: D.A.

DOYLESTOWN, PA — A state employee who was caring for a Bucks County woman convicted of killing her two children has been charged with stealing $130,000 from the woman and spending part of it on a family vacation to Puerto Rico, authorities said.

Bridget Nicole Compton, 51, of Philadelphia, surrendered to Bucks County Detectives in connection to a theft from former Upper Makefield resident Trinh Nguyen, whom she encountered while working as an employee at the Norristown State Hospital.

Nguyen was sent to Norristown for a competency restoration in January 2023 and remained there until May 2023. In May, Nguyen was transferred back to the Bucks County Correctional facility and later to a State Correctional Institution, where she is now serving two consecutive life terms.

Compton has been charged with access device fraud, identity theft, forgery, and related offenses after detectives established that she unlawfully diverted five checks from the victim’s account to herself over the course of two months, totaling $132,480.01.

The investigation began in November 2024 when Edward Tini reported the theft of the funds from an account associated with his ex-wife, Trinh Nguyen. Detectives quickly determined that each of the checks were endorsed by the defendant and subsequently cashed through Cottman Check Cashing in Philadelphia.

Investigators reviewed correspondence between Compton and the victim and found no indication that the defendant was authorized to make financial transactions on the victim’s behalf.

In speaking with the victim, detectives learned that Compton’s assistance was requested with an address change on the account so that the victim could continue to receive account-related mail
correspondence, but the defendant was never authorized to transfer any funds from the account.

During an interview with the defendant, Compton acknowledged to detectives that she impersonated the victim in phone calls to the financial institution, authorizing checks to be sent to the address of Compton’s mother, from which she would retrieve and liquidate them at
the Philadelphia check cashing business.

Compton reported that she has since disposed of all the funds, namely through a $10,000 gift to her mother and a family vacation to Puerto Rico in July 2023, telling detectives, “I got the money in July and was broke by Christmas …. that’s how quick it went.”

The investigation, which remains ongoing, is being conducted by Bucks County Detectives in partnership with the Montgomery County Detective Bureau. Bucks County Deputy District Attorneys Brittney Kern and John Fegley are assigned for prosecution.