48-Year-Old Woman Spends Two Years Posing As Her 22-Year-Old Daughter

A 48-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud after she spent two years living as her estranged 22-year-old daughter and using the stolen identity to enroll in university, take out student loans, and get a driver’s license.

In 2016, Laura Oglesby applied for a social security card in the name of her daughter, Lauren Ashleigh Hays, who was 22 years old at the time.

Residents in Mountain View, Missouri believed that Oglesby was in fact 22. She had a job at the city library and she dated men who thought she was more than two decades younger than she really was.