Cheated on everyone for 2 years: mother stole daughter's identity to go to college and date young guys

A Missouri woman faces jail time for stealing the identity of her estranged daughter in order to get student loans, go to college and date young boys. The edition told in more detail New York Post.

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Laura Oglesby, 48, has been posing as her daughter Lauren Hayes for over two years. She defrauded both the federal government and local residents in the small town of Mountain View.

In 2016, Oglesby applied for a Social Security card in Hayes's name, which she immediately received in the mail.

Since then, 43-year-old Oglesby from Arkansas, stole her daughter's identity by saying that her name was Lauren Hayes and that she was only 22 years old.

The crook began seducing unsuspecting 20-year-olds who had no idea that Oglesby was actually more than twice his age.

“Everyone believed in it. She even had boyfriends who believed she was really 22,” said Chief Jamie Perkins of the Mountain View Police Department.

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Oglesby even had her own Snapchat account, where she pretended to be Hayes and posed with many filters on her face.

“She has completely embraced the younger lifestyle: the clothes, the makeup, the personality,” Detective Stetson Schwin noted.

Oglesby moved in with local couple Avery and Wendy Parker from Mountain View, who saw her as a young woman who had run away from home due to violence.

A manipulative woman convinced them that her name was Lauren Hayes, after which she lived with the Parkers for almost two years.

During this time, Oglesby applied for a Missouri driver's license in her daughter's name and entered Southwestern Baptist University.

In addition, she applied for financial aid and received $9400 in federal student loans, $5920 in grants, and $1863 in financial expenses.

Oglesby even worked at the Mountain View City Library, where the locals knew her as Lauren Hayes.

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However, more than two years later, in August 2018, the elaborate scam crashed. The Mountain View police were contacted by the Arkansas authorities, who said that Oglesby had committed financial fraud using her daughter's name.

After learning the name, investigators approached Oglesby, who initially denied stealing her daughter's identity. However, it is reported that later she could not stand it and confessed to fraud.

Oglesby now faces five years in prison without parole.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Oglesby also has to pay $ 17 in restitution to Southwestern Baptist University in Missouri and her daughter.

The real Lauren Hayes did not comment on the situation and did not tell how their relationship with their mother deteriorated.

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