28-Year-Old Posing as a High School Student Busted With Her Own Facebook – VICE

For about two weeks, Kacy Claassen, 28, was living life as a high school student. She had a fake name, a fake backstory, and a school-issued ID. She thought of almost everything, except making her Facebook profile private. Last month, Claassen walked into Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx and enrolled as Shamara Rashad, a 16-year-old who had just moved to New York from Ohio with her sister. She attended classes, got issued a school ID with her fake name and age, and kept the whole thing going until the school’s principal, Marques Rich, started digging. And it wasn’t long before he found her Facebook page. Videos by VICE The profile listed her real date of birth as July 29, 1997, included photos of her holding a baby, and at least one post where she mentioned having a daughter. When Rich confronted her, Claassen held the line, insisting she was Rashad. Then he put a screenshot of her own profile in front of her, and she was forced to come clean. Enrollment Fraud is a Real Crime, So Don’t Pretend to Be a Teenager Her explanation, per a criminal complaint obtained by ABC 7 and the Associated Press , was
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