{"id":416082,"date":"2026-05-07T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416082\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:44:08","slug":"bronx-school-enrolment-fraud-woman-28-accused-of-posing-as-16-year-old-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416082\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx school enrolment fraud: Woman, 28, accused of posing as 16-year-old student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Claassen has pleaded not guilty to charges of endangering the welfare of a child, trespassing, and criminal impersonation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">She is set to appear in court again on June 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">While her Facebook profile claims she has a daughter, police have been unable to verify whether this is true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">According to ABC News, officials from New York City Public Schools have released a statement since the incident, saying, \u201cEnrolment fraud is a serious crime that fundamentally undermines New York City Public School values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe NYPD is actively investigating these allegations and will pursue all appropriate legal action against those responsible. We are providing all necessary and suitable support to the school community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The student newspaper for the neighbouring Bronx River High School said Westchester Square officials were in the process of reviewing school enrolment procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claassen has pleaded not guilty to charges of endangering the welfare of a child, trespassing, and criminal impersonation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18431,41051,51330,1117,806,112367,213929,2741,2562,81655,1644,3561,213930,1445,71,42,2959,43,1118,24173,67667,4062,13672,9631,40,38,41,39,6923,1354,2173],"class_list":["post-416082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-16yearold","tag-41051","tag-28yearold","tag-accused","tag-as","tag-assistance","tag-bronx","tag-claim","tag-claims","tag-enrolment","tag-financial","tag-fraud","tag-fraudulently","tag-friends","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-high","tag-news","tag-of","tag-posed","tag-posing","tag-school","tag-state","tag-student","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-what","tag-woman","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}