“Everyone we talked to assumed she was a teenager like she said she was, because she looked like one,” Stuart Newlin, principal of New Life Christian School in Longview, Texas, told ABC News. "Teachers were crying and students were crying, and her best friend just couldn't believe it." Why put yourself and others at risk to do something like this?" "I just don't know why she did it. Read: Florida Teen Accused of Impersonating a Physician Assistant Goes on Trial 
 
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 Johnson even kept up a presence on social media. She said Johnson told her she needed a place to stay after her parents died and her sister was kicked out of her apartment. She enrolled in the school, giving a date of birth that indicated she was 15. Lincoln acted as Charity's guardian and even met with Charity's 10th grade teachers at New Life Christian School. While jail records indicate that Johnson is 31, Longview police released a statement Thursday saying that she is actually 34. As soon as Lincoln and Paul Ward suspected Charity was using a fake identity, they called the police and went straight to the school. She lied about her name and was charged with failure to show identification, police said. Johnson is behind bars at Gregg County Jail on a $500 bond.
– A strange case of an alleged imposter out of Texas: A woman who is at least 31 and possibly older posed as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and got away with it for almost an entire school year, reports KLTV. Charity Johnson is behind bars and accused of duping an East Texas woman into taking her in as an abandoned teen, then enrolling in a Longview high school as Charity Stevens. “She acted like a kid," Tamara Lincoln tells ABC News. "She did her homework. She got good report cards." Jail records put Johnson's age at 31, but police think she's actually 34. Johnson's motive is unclear, but she managed to enroll in the school in October 2013 and didn't get arrested until last week. The scheme began unraveling when she tried to join a group for needy kids and a background check turned up red flags. The group contacted Lincoln, who called police after a little snooping of her own. Lincoln herself is 30, making her younger than the supposed teen in her care. "I just don't know why she did it," she says.