NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A 29-year-old woman accused of using false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attend some classes over a four-day period will be allowed to enter a pretrial intervention program, a state judge ruled Monday.The woman had pleaded not guilty in March to a charge of providing a false government document.
Her lawyer has said she did so because she was lonely and longed to return to her days with friends in school but now realizes she made a mistake.
She will have to undergo a mental health evaluation and, if she completes the program, the charge against her could eventually be dismissed.The woman is a South Korean citizen who came to the United States by herself when she was 16 to attend a private boarding school, the lawyer said.
She later graduated from Rutgers University in 2019.The lawyer said his client had no nefarious intentions when she enrolled at New Brunswick High School in January.