29-year-old woman who enrolled in New Brunswick High School says she knows she ‘made a mistake’

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WPVI) — A 29-year-old lasted every week, faking it as a brand new scholar at New Brunswick Excessive Faculty earlier than the varsity found her start certificates was pretend.

Hyejeong Shin’s legal professional, Darren Gelber, mentioned the Rutgers College graduate is aware of she made a mistake and that it was her eager for the sorts of friendships she had in highschool that made her resolve to do it.

Gelber mentioned Shin is a South Korean citizen who got here to this nation alone when she was 16 to attend a personal boarding college and that she missed that form of ambiance, in search of it once more at New Brunswick Excessive.

“At no time was anybody or any scholar in peril and this complete case is extra about my consumer eager to return to a spot of security and welcoming, and an setting that she seems again on fondly and nothing extra,” mentioned Gelber.

Shin’s ruse earned her a grand jury indictment and a third-degree offense for false paperwork and hindering her personal prosecution.

Her household despatched their New York legal professional to her courtroom proceedings on Monday. Shin and her legal professional are hoping she shall be accepted into the pre-trial intervention program and serve no time.

New Brunswick Police had earlier launched a press release, which mentioned in a part of its investigation that nothing had revealed that Shin’s intentions for enrolling in New Brunswick Excessive Faculty was to deliver hurt or violence to the scholars, employees or school.

Gelber says as soon as that is resolved — nonetheless it’s resolved, after 13 years in america, Shin needs to return to South Korea.

Shin’s subsequent courtroom date is pending.