Loneliness can be a very bad advisor. If you don’t believe us, then you must know the strange case of a 29-year-old woman who made the decision to pose as a teenage student, until she enrolled in a high school, just because she felt very lonely.
A few days after attending classes, she was discovered and ended up being arrested. According to her defense attorney, her only intention was to make friends in an environment where she had felt safe in the past.
According to information from Inside Edition, Hyejeong Shin is a South Korean woman who came to the United States legally at the age of 16, to study at a Massachusetts boarding school. Apparently, at that time she was very happy, because she found friends and a social life.
Years later, he graduated from Rutgers University and later married, but after facing a bitter divorce, he came up with the idea of returning to the place where he had been happy.
Using a fake birth certificate, Shin enrolled in a New Jersey high school, but after a few days, she was discovered and arrested. The parents of the other students worried that the woman had some sinister motive for enrolling on campus. However, according to New Brunswick police, she did not intend to harm anyone.
At no time was anyone, not even a student, in danger. This whole case is more about my client wanting to return to a safe and nurturing place and an environment that she fondly remembers and nothing more.
-Darren Gelber, Hyejeong Shin’s attorney
The lawyer Gelber will try that Shin does not go to prison, since for not having a criminal record, it may be possible for him to serve his sentence on probation. However, his appointment in Court has not yet been defined.
