A 29-year-old woman was arrested after posing as a teenager to attend high school classes (Photo: CBS News)
A New Jersey woman was arrested after posing as a high school student and enrolling in classes for four days, authorities said.
Hyejeong Shin, 29, was arrested and charged with falsifying a government document. School board officials say she showed school officials a forged birth certificate to pass herself off as a teenager and attend classes at the New Brunswick high school.
“By submitting false documents, an elderly woman posing as a student was able to enroll in our high school,” New Brunswick Superintendent Aubrey Johnson said at a school board meeting.
“She was in a few classes and then most of the time in our orientation package as we tried to get more information out of her,” he said.
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Hyejeong Shin was able to enroll and attend classes at New Brunswick High School (Photo: Wikipedia)
Johnson said police were immediately notified when officers discovered the fraud. New Brunswick Today reported that she came to the attention of school staff after they were unable to identify her parent or legal guardian.
However, Shin, who allegedly posed as a 15-year-old freshman, was able to communicate with students before faculty caught on. Some students even said she approached them to hang out after class.
“Some of the girls that I know, the girl asked them out on Commercial Avenue, but they never showed up and she started acting weird with them,” one student told CBS Philadelphia.
Superintendent Aubrey Johnson (centre) speaks at the school board meeting about Sheen’s arrest (Photo: Twitter / Charlie4Change)
“She was at our high school and we also made sure we told our students to refrain from any contact with her – remotely or in person,” Johnson told worried parents at the school board meeting.
Johnson said the school communicates with the students Shin interacted with directly.
A photo of Shin was circulated to all students who were warned not to engage with her anymore. She is banned from all school district property, according to a letter sent to students.
The superintendent also said the district is looking at ways to reform the paperwork process to catch fake paperwork.
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