Woman arrested for impersonating her 13-year-old daughter at a high school and filming her experience while administrators and most teachers were unaware.
Woman arrested for impersonating her 13-year-old daughter at school
A woman has been arrested after impersonating her 13-year-old daughter at a local San Elizario (Texas) high school and filming her experience while administrators and most teachers were unaware.
Casey Garcia, 30, faces a charge of breaking and entering and tampering with government records, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said.
In one clip, the mother can be seen wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt, glasses and a black mask entering the school.
“I look like a seventh grader, don’t I? Cool, awesome!” she stated and explained that she put on bronzer and dyed her hair to look more like her teenage daughter.
In addition, the images show the woman eating in the school cafeteria and attending a math class, while someone addresses her by her daughter’s name.
Although some students recognize her, at the end of the video she thanks them for keeping her secret.
The mother stresses in another recording that the school staff was more concerned about getting their hands on her phone than who she really was.
“The teachers were so concerned about the students who were online that they didn’t pay attention to the students who were physically there,” she added.
“I think what broke my heart was walking in and pretending to be a seventh grader. I mean, I’m not a girl, but it wasn’t hard,” she noted.
She added that only one teacher realized she wasn’t a student: “The last teacher, who was female, said to me, ‘Julie, can you stay after class?’ And I said yes.
She looked at me and said, ‘You’re not Julie.'”
According to Garcia, this was “a social experiment.” “We need better security in our schools,” he said.
“I exposed the dangers in our schools and I’m trying to protect my children and their children. If they want to come after me for that, there’s really nothing more I can say,” he concluded.
