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US woman (34) arrested for posing as 15-year-old student

Charity Johnson enrolled in a private high school in Texas last October

Charity Johnson (34), posed as a teenager to enrol at a private Texas high school. Photograph: Longview Police Dept/Handout via Reuters
Charity Johnson (34), posed as a teenager to enrol at a private Texas high school. Photograph: Longview Police Dept/Handout via Reuters
Fri May 16 2014 - 13:54

A 34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enrol at a private Texas high school.

Longview police said Charity Johnson was arrested after telling officers she was "Charite Stevens".

She was being held in Gregg County Jail on $500 bond for allegedly giving false information to police.

Police had been called to a flat when the person Ms Johnson was staying with said she no longer wanted her living there.

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Police gave her a trespass warning.

The principal at a small private school in east Texas said Ms Johnson enrolled with a guardian in October and filled out paperwork indicating she was 15.

Police said she was 34, although jail records listed her as 31.

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