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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4c4040"><strong>Laura Oglesby adopted the identity of her estranged daughter <strong>Lauren Ashleigh Hays</strong></strong> <strong>in 2016, who was 22 at the time </strong> <strong> <strong> </strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4c4040"><strong>Oglesby applied for a Social Security Card in her daughter&#8217;s name and embezzled over $25,000 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4c4040"><strong>Oglesby</strong>,<strong> 48, spent two years living as Lauren Ashleigh Hays after stealing her ID to secure loans, get a driver&#8217;s license, enroll in university and even date guys who believed she was 22 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4c4040"><strong>Cops revealed that Oglesby had been working at a city library in Mountain View for over a year under her daughter&#8217;s identity</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4c4040"><strong>She faces a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole after pleading guilty to Social Security Fraud </strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In story where fact is stranger than fiction &#8211; locals in Mountain View, Missouri, believed that Laura Oglesby was a 22-year-old student called Lauren Hays who dated men who believed she was that young and had a job at the city library. But in reality, she was a mother in her 40s who had assumed her estranged daughter&#8217;s identity and embezzled over $25,000.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Laura-Oglesby-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-397065" width="809" height="791"/><figcaption><strong>Laura Oglesby, 48, [photo], adopted the identity of her estranged daughter Lauren Ashleigh Hays in 2016, who was 22 at the time, after applying for a Social Security Card in her name</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The impostor middleaged mother has pled guilty to spending two years living as her estranged daughter after stealing her identity to enroll in university, secure student loans and get a driver&#8217;s license. <br>Laura Oglesby assumed the identity of her estranged daughter Lauren Ashleigh Hays in 2016, after applying for a Social Security Card in her name and skipped town. Hayes was 22 at the time.<br>To locals in her newly adopted home of Mountain View, Missouri, Oglesby was a 22-year-old student called Lauren Hays who dated men who believed she was that young and had a job at the city library.<br>But in reality, the impostor was a mother in her 40s who had assumed her estranged daughter&#8217;s identity and embezzled over $25,000. <br>She now faces up to five years in prison without parole for Social Security Fraud.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Laura-Oglesby-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-397067" width="834" height="696"/><figcaption><strong> To locals in Mountain View, Missouri, Laura Oglesby [photo], was a 22-year-old student called Lauren Hays who dated men who believed she was that young and had a job at the city library. But in reality, she was a mother in her 40s who had assumed her estranged daughter&#8217;s identity and embezzled over $25,000 </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Laura-Oglesby-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-397079" width="823" height="1211"/><figcaption><strong>After obtaining a Social Security card in her daughter&#8217;s name in 2016, Laura Oglesby used the card to obtain a Missouri driver&#8217;s license and enrolled in college a year later with the same card. Oglesby, 48, is seen posing for a selfie during the time she was living under her 22-year-old daughter&#8217;s identity</strong><br></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8216;Everyone believed it,&#8217; Chief Jamie Perkins of the Mountain View Police Department told <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/us/laura-oglesby-social-security-fraud.html">The New York Times</a>. <br>&#8216;She even had boyfriends that believed that she was that age: 22 years old.&#8217; <br>In 2016, on the day of obtaining a fraudulent Social Security card in her daughter&#8217;s name, Oglesby used the card to obtain a Missouri driver&#8217;s license, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Western District of Missouri said in a statement. <br>A year later, Oglesby used the Security Card again to enroll at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri where she applied for and received financial aid to attend. <br>She received $9,400 in federal student loans, $5,920 in Pell Grants, $337 for books she got from the University bookstore, and $1,863 in finance charges. <br>After pleading guilty to the charge of Social Security Fraud, Oglesby must pay $17,521 to the university as well as restitution to her daughter Lauren for identity theft. <br>Oglesby will face a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole. <br>Her story unraveled in 2018 when authorities in Arkansas contacted Mountain View Police Department. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Laura-Oglesby-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-397075" width="752" height="1385"/><figcaption><strong>48-year-old impostor Laura Oglesby appears to have had a Snapchat account in her 22-year-old daughter’s name, where she posted photos with a variety of youthful-looking filters. &#8211; &#8216;She even had boyfriends that believed that she was that age: 22 years old.&#8217; Mountain View Police Chief, Jamie Perkins </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Southwest-Baptist-University-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-397072"/><figcaption><strong>Using her assumed identity, in 2017 Oglesby enrolled at Southwest Baptist University [photo], in Missouri where she applied for and received financial aid to attend classes</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They had been searching for Oglesby who they said had stolen her daughter Lauren&#8217;s identity to embezzle more than $25,000 and they believed she was now living in Mountain View, a city just north of the Arkansas state line. <br>She was later arrested by the Mountain View Police department. Officers revealed that Oglesby had been working at a city library in Mountain View for over a year under her daughter&#8217;s identity. <br>Chief Perkins told The New York Times: &#8216;She actually was employed here, which was kind of off. And that&#8217;s how we figured out who she was.&#8217; <br>Perkins said officers had pulled Oglesby over at a traffic stop. After initially denying that she was Oglesby, she admitted it after the police showed her proof that they knew her identity. <br>&#8216;She was just running because she was in a domestic violence relationship, and she&#8217;d been running for years,&#8217; Chief Perkins said Oglesby told the police. <br>&#8216;We don&#8217;t know her life story outside of what she told us, but we know what happened here.&#8217; <br>&#8216;She had lived that life for a couple of years and basically just ruined her daughter&#8217;s credit,&#8217; Chief Perkins said. <br>Southwest Baptist University said in a statement that it had &#8216;cooperated fully with the investigation.&#8217; <br>Meanwhile the target of the identity theft, the convict&#8217;s daughter Lauren Hays, has not yet spoken about her mother&#8217;s scam or the state of their relationship.</p>

Mom, 48, charged with identity theft after two years living as her stealing ID of her estranged daughter after stealing her ID to secure loans, get a driver’s license, enroll in university and even date guys who believed she was 22
