It was found that a 29-year-old Korean woman who was handed over to trial for pretending to be a high school girl by falsifying her birth certificate at a high school in New Jersey, USA, reiterated that she did this because she was “lonely.”
On the 15th (local time), Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) introduced the case of Shin Hye-jeong, a 29-year-old Korean woman who was caught pretending to be a high school girl at New Brunswick High School in New Jersey by fabricating false birth certificates in January.
In January, Shin was caught by the local police while posing as a high school student by fabricating documents such as his birth certificate and participating in classes for four days.
The police said that Shin kept contacting some of the students after finding out the phone numbers of the students, and put him on trial for forgery of official documents. Subsequently, he ordered that no access to school grounds, etc. be allowed.
According to New Jersey state law, students can attend school immediately after admission, and it is a principle that all students must be registered even if records such as personal information are insufficient.
Students who request admission without being able to prove their identity will first be processed for temporary registration and will be asked to submit the relevant documents within 30 days.
Following the trial held last March, Shin’s lawyer stated at the trial that day that he planned this because he was lonely, and that he is currently reflecting.
Shin, who came to the United States from Korea to attend a boarding school in Massachusetts at the age of 16, is said to have said that she missed the days with her friends in school and wanted to go back.
He is a researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey, majoring in Political Science and Chinese, and is pursuing a master’s degree.
Mr. Shin’s lawyer appeals that he is currently experiencing mental pain and emphasizes that he wants to participate in the ‘Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI)’, which contains a kind of mediation-like procedure that can avoid criminal convictions.
If the judge admits and accepts this, his charges could be dismissed, the SCMP reported.
Source: Donga
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