WOMAN, 29, CHARGED FOR POSING AS STUDENT AT NJ HIGH SCHOOL
The woman is a South Korean citizen who came to the United States by herself when she was 16 to attend a private boarding school, the lawyer said. She later graduated from Rutgers University in 2019.
A lawyer for a woman accused of fraudulently enrolling in a New Jersey high school and attending four days' worth of classes claims she did so out of loneliness and longing for her youth.
The lawyer said his client had no nefarious intentions when she enrolled at New Brunswick High School in January. She was just seeking to return to "a place of safety and welcoming and an environment that she looks back on fondly," he said.
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Authorities have said the woman got the phone numbers of students who helped her find her way through the school and continued to text some of them days after her ruse was discovered. She was barred from entering school grounds in the district, and officials have advised students to not have any contact with her.
The woman provided district officials with a false birth certificate when she enrolled, officials have said. The district has nearly 10,000 students.