Posted on 05/15/2014 3:21:50 PM PDT by Theoria
34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enroll as sophomore at a small private high school in East Texas, officials said Wednesday.
Longview police said Charity Johnson was arrested early Tuesday morning after telling officers she was "Charite Stevens" and was born in November 1997. Police had been called to an apartment when the person Johnson was staying with said she no longer wanted her living there. Police gave Johnson a trespass warning.
Officer Debra Stiles said during the investigation, police determined she had given them a false name and birthdate.
Police say Johnson is 34, although jail records list her as 31. She was being held Wednesday in the Gregg County Jail on $500 bond for allegedly giving false information to police. Attorney information was not listed for her.
Stiles said she did not know why the woman posed as a teen.
The principal at New Life Christian School in Longview said Johnson enrolled in October with a guardian and filled out paperwork indicating she was 15.
"She acted like a 15, 16-year-old. She was an attentive student, respectful, did her homework," Stuart Newlin told The Associated Press.
He said the school charges $150 a month, but there's no penalty if students don't pay. He said she'd been paying about $24 a month tuition at the school with about 30 students.
He said everyone involved with the school was convinced she was a teen.
"The why? Nobody seems to know why," Newlin said.
Stiles also said she did not know what Johnson's motivation was.
Tamica Lincoln told KLTV television station in Tyler that she invited Johnson into her home in March after Johnson told her she needed a place to stay.
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She’s “Unce........Tice.......Fee Dimes a Mady.....”
Can she read cursive?
thats hair ? i thought it was a hat made out of some animal
The make-up does do wonders...
But still...
How effed up does your life have to be where this seems like a good idea.
Please, no more pictures. My newly de-cataracted eyes can’t take it.
“She was being held Wednesday in the Gregg County Jail “
They could have thrown her into juvenile detention hall/prison. Keep up the act.
Wookin Pa Nub....
Maybe she was THE person who was actually trying to ‘turn her life around?’
You couldn’t pay me enough to go back to school, and I did enjoy it at at the time.
LOL....Looks like Charite would ;) It must be the tasty lunches they serve. /s
Actually, I would have guessed middle school!
Al sharptons offspring?
Maybe she thought they’d teach her how to write and read cursive?
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