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Update: Police Arrest 31-Year-Old High School Student
Topic Started: May 15 2014, 03:50 PM (338 Views)
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A 31-year-old woman was arrested for posing as a Texas high school student after spending almost an entire year enrolled as a sophomore, police said.

Charity Johnson — who was attending classes at New Life Christian School in Longview since October — was collared on Sunday, after her adoptive family became suspicious of her identity, KLTV reported.

Police say Johnson, who was using the name Charite Stevens, began going to school after she posed as an orphaned 15-year-old to find a place to live.

“I sympathized with her and invited her into my home,” Tamica Lincoln, who became Johnson’s guardian, told the news station.

“I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes.”

Johnson claimed the was abused by her biological father who passed away when her mother died, Lincoln said.

Lincoln, who maintained relationships with the Charite’s teachers, said she recently became curious of the 10th-grader’s identity and called police.

Investigators soon determined that Johnson used a fake name and birthday to enroll at the school. The woman even had a bogus Facebook account, Lincoln said.

Johnson was ordered held at Gregg County Jail in lieu of $500 bond after she was arraigned on several charges that included giving false, fictitious information, authorities said.

School officials told the news station that they would be sending a notice about the arrest to parents on Thursday.

Lincoln said teachers and students at the school — located about 140 miles east of Dallas — were stunned.

“Teachers were crying and students were crying,” she said. “And her best friend just couldn’t believe it.”

It was not immediately clear why Johnson conned Lincoln or the school.

“I just don’t know why she did it,” Lincoln said. “Why put yourself and others at risk to do something like this?”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-31-posed-15-year-old-student-texas-high-school-article-1.1793094#ixzz31ocT6zFg

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AquarianLove
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LMAO..This is definitely a WTF post.

I don't understand why Ms. Lincoln thought it was ok to bring this "child" into her home without calling the cops. This woman could have killed or robbed her.
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:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
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silly93
May 15 2014, 04:30 PM
:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
Possibly homeless or mental illness?! Can't believe she got away by going to school and being in 10th grade again.
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AquarianLove
May 16 2014, 09:21 AM
silly93
May 15 2014, 04:30 PM
:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
Possibly homeless or mental illness?! Can't believe she got away by going to school and being in 10th grade again.
There was an episode of Law and Order with an older woman pretending to be a teen, I wonder if she got the idea from there?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0966157/
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May 16 2014, 11:02 AM
AquarianLove
May 16 2014, 09:21 AM
silly93
May 15 2014, 04:30 PM
:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
Possibly homeless or mental illness?! Can't believe she got away by going to school and being in 10th grade again.
There was an episode of Law and Order with an older woman pretending to be a teen, I wonder if she got the idea from there?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0966157/
NO!!!!!!!! LOL I hope not, but you never know.
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AquarianLove
May 16 2014, 09:21 AM
silly93
May 15 2014, 04:30 PM
:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
Possibly homeless or mental illness?! Can't believe she got away by going to school and being in 10th grade again.
I was thinking the exact thing. If so I hope they get her the proper help she needs.
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Liquid Sky
May 16 2014, 11:02 AM
AquarianLove
May 16 2014, 09:21 AM
silly93
May 15 2014, 04:30 PM
:blink: What??? I really want to know what what her motive behind all this?
Possibly homeless or mental illness?! Can't believe she got away by going to school and being in 10th grade again.
There was an episode of Law and Order with an older woman pretending to be a teen, I wonder if she got the idea from there?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0966157/
:lmao: That would be super funny if she did! :laugh:
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A 34-year-old East Texas woman who made headlines last month by posing as a high school sophomore has pleaded guilty to failure to identify.

A judge in Longview on Tuesday sentenced Charity Johnson to 85 days in jail under a plea agreement.

The con artist who pretended to be a 15-year-old girl was also ordered to pay a $277 fine.

Ms Johnson already has served nearly a month in jail following her May 13 arrest.

Charity Johnson was taken into custody seven months after she enrolled at New Life Christian School in Longview as a sophomore.

The bizarre tale of deception has left many people in the small East Texas community in a state of disbelief, including 23-year-old Rickie Williams, who had been dating Johnson since last summer.

Williams said Johnson, who has been using the last name Stevens and posing as an orphan, told him she was 18 years old.

Another person who bought into Johnson's sad tale of abuse and loss was Osarieme Obaseki, 40, who runs the Dallas-based What About Us non-profit organization helping women and girls.

Obaseki told ABC News last month that Johnson first contacted her in April claiming to be a 14-year-old girl in need of help.

The two formed a bond and continued exchanging phone calls, with Johnson calling the woman only six years her senior 'Mom.' She was living with her guardian, Tamica Lincoln, in Longview at the time, but made no mention of that to Obaseki.

Their relationship culminated on Mother's Day when Johnson took a train to Dallas to visit Obaseki, even bringing her a homemade holiday card.

But over the course of Johnson’s visit, Obaseki's sister became suspicious, pointing out to her that the high school sophomore had the body of a grown woman.

Sensing that something did not add up, Obaseki called Lincoln – a phone call that set in motion a chain of events which eventually led to Johnson being exposed as a fraud.

‘It’s just been a lot of lies and cover-up,’ Obaseki said. ‘Nobody I spoke to has said it’s ever been a financial situation. She had money! It’s not that, at all.’

Charity Johnson, was arrested on the night of May 13 - more than six months after she enrolled in
New Life Christian School in Longview pretending to be a 15-year-old orphan.

According to school officials, Ms Johnson came to New Life last October accompanied by a guardian who turned out to be younger than the fake tenth-grader.

During the enrollment process, Johnson gave the name Charity Stevens and indicated that she was 15 years old.

Tamica Lincoln, 30, who took on the role of Johnson's guardian last March, told the station KLTV the bogus teenager told her that she had been abused by her biological father, who has since died along with her mother.

The two women met while working together at a McDonald's located inside the local Walmart, and Johnson confided in Lincoln that she had no place to stay after losing her parents.

Lincoln brought the suspected con artist four years her senior into her home 'as a child,' bought her clothes and did her hair. She even attended parent-teacher conferences to talk about the fake sophomore’s impressive academic performance.

'She acted like a kid. She did her homework. She got good report cards,' the 30-year-old Longview resident told ABC News.

Johnson’s web of lies began unraveling when Lincoln got a call from Obaseki, the head of the Dallas-based charity.

Ms Obaseki told Lincoln that she ran a background check on 'Charity Stevens,' which provided more questions than answers.

Lincoln then decided to make inquires of her own and called a manager at the McDonald's where both she and Johnson worked. The staffer pulled up the high-schooler's file, which indicated that her birth year was 1979 and her real name Charity Johnson.

On May 13, Lincoln and the phony orphan’s mentor, Ray Ward, alerted police to the alleged fraud before heading over to the high school.

School officials said Johnson came in last October as a home-schooled student without any prior transcripts.

Officers who responded to Lincoln’s Longview home asked Johnson to identify herself, and in response she gave them the name Charity Stevens – the same moniker used on her school application.

The woman was charged with failure to identify/giving false, fictitious information.

Looking at Johnson’s fake Facebook,Twitter and Instagram account created under the nickname Charite, it is easy to understand how those around her could have bought in to her tale of woes.

In the photos posted online, Johnson looks like a shy, fresh-faced girl with a pink bow in her neatly combed hair and sparkly manicure.

However, in her booking photo, Johnson dressed in a striped jail garb looks not a day younger than her 34 years, with a lined, puffy face and a tangle of hair.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654379/Con-artist-34-posed-months-15-year-old-high-school-sophomore-sentenced-85-days-jail.html



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She's a deeply disturbed person.
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