A 29-year-old woman has been charged with allegedly pretending to be almost half her age to enter a high school in New Jersey.
Now people want to know: how did she trick the admin and why?
Over 2,000 students attend New Brunswick High School, where every teenager learns how to be an adult. However, police said one of those students was not her teen, but an adult woman in her nearly 30s who entered the school by lying on her birth certificate.
Police said Shin Hye-jung was indicted on Tuesday for providing false government documents. School officials say she spent her four days in class pretending to be her teenager.
It was not immediately clear why Shin did so.Students at the school told the local New Brunswick Today newspaper that she was making friends and was trying to recruit girls for sex trafficking. I was afraid that
Other teens in the neighborhood called it a horrible idea.
16-year-old Desiree Daly said, “Honestly, I was very scared. Around school and friends. It’s scary.”
“We warned every student, hopefully anyone who may have encountered this person while she was in our high school,” the superintendent said at a school board meeting Tuesday night.
The student was told to stop all contact with her, online or in person.
“She had a fake birth certificate. “So it’s kind of nerve-wracking to know that now.”
In a statement, the school principal said the school district is following the law.
“Students who cannot prove their identity and request admission must be provisionally enrolled in the school. From that point, the student must provide identifying information within 30 days. You have the option to declare that you are ineligible to attend the class,” the statement read.
As soon as the district realized they were dealing with a fraudulent situation, they called the police. I will check how to do it.
