A photo of Charity from her Facebook page, where she was listed under her alias "Charite" (Source: Facebook) 
 
 A woman is behind bars after allegedly pretending to be an East Texas high school student. 
 
 Charity Anne Johnson, 31, was enrolled at New Life Christian School in Longview as a sophomore. Longview police say Johnson was arrested Tuesday at an apartment in the 400 block of S. High Street. Residents told officers they had reason to believe she was lying about her age and wanted assistance in making her leave. 
 
 Officer Debra Stiles said Johnson gave officers the name "Charite Stevens" and a birth date of November 24, 1997. This is the information Johnson used to enroll at New Life Christian School. 
 
 A spokesperson for the school said Johnson was brought in to enroll with a person who was her guardian. She enrolled in the school, giving a date of birth that indicated she was 15. On Tuesday, staff at the school discovered her identification was fake. She had been a student there since October 2013. 
 
 Tamica Lincoln says back in March, Charity told her she was 15 and needed a place to stay. "I sympathized with her, and invited her into my home. I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes..." 
 
 Lincoln says Charity claimed she was abused by her biological father who has since passed away, along with her biological mother. Lincoln acted as Charity's guardian and even met with Charity's 10th grade teachers at New Life Christian School. 
 
 "I just don't know why she did it. Why put yourself and others at risk to do something like this?" she wonders. "I have deep concerns about her being who we don't know she is, and then she's out there at the school." 
 
 As soon as Lincoln and Paul Ward suspected Charity was using a fake identity, they called the police and went straight to the school. 
 
 "Teachers were crying and students were crying, and her best friend just couldn't believe it." 
 
 School officials wouldn't go on camera, but they say a notice about the situation will be sent home Thursday with students. Lincoln posted a picture of Charity on Facebook, and asked if anyone knew her. The response is surprising. 
 
 "I've reached out to four different women off of Facebook that she has contacted. Florida, here in Longview, Minnesota." 
 
 None of those people want any further contact with Charity. They tell us that they hope she has time in jail to think about the pain she caused with her lies. 
 
 Johnson was arrested for failure to identify/giving false, fictitious information. She remains in the Gregg County Jail on $500 bond. 
 
 While jail records indicate that Johnson is 31, Longview police released a statement Thursday saying that she is actually 34. 
 
 Copyright 2014 KLTV. All rights reserved. ||||| A 34-year-old Texas woman pretended to be a high school sophomore for nearly an entire school year, fooling teachers, classmates and even the woman who took her in, school officials said. 
 
 “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. 
 
 “She had friends," he said. "Everybody liked her.” 
 
 It’s not clear why Charity Anne Johnson, who was arrested this week, allegedly enrolled at the school in October as 15-year-old Charity Stevens. 
 
 “That’s the mystery. We have no clue,” Newlin said. 
 
 Johnson had no transcripts but said she had been home schooled, he added. 
 
 “She came in with a guardian; there was no reason to be suspicious,” Newlin said. “Usually, parents come in, they fill out the paperwork and we take their word for it. If they come from another school, you transfer records. If they come from home school, they don’t have those records.” 
 
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 Tamica Lincoln, the woman whom Johnson had been living with, was dumbfounded. 
 
 “She acted like a kid. She did her homework. She got good report cards,” Lincoln, 30, told ABC News. 
 
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 Johnson even kept up a presence on social media. She posed for selfies and posted snapshots of friendship bracelets and Hello Kitty on Instagram and Twitter -- all things that wouldn’t be out of place on a high school student’s account. 
 
 Lincoln had been Johnson’s caregiver since March, after meeting the woman at McDonald’s, where they both worked. She said Johnson told her she needed a place to stay after her parents died and her sister was kicked out of her apartment. 
 
 “I allowed her to come into my house," Lincoln said. "I was just trying to be nice and kindhearted and get her out of the situation she was in.” 
 
 She discovered Johnson might be lying about her age after getting a phone call from a woman who ran a group for needy children that Johnson tried to join. The woman had run a background check, Lincoln said. 
 
 “I started looking into it. I contacted the manager that works at that McDonald’s. He pulled up her file and the date of birth was 1979. The name was Charity Johnson." 
 
 Police say Johnson is 34 years old despite jail records that list her being 31 years old. 
 
 Lincoln has since talked to several people who had similar stories about Johnson, she said. 
 
 Johnson was arrested late Monday after Lincoln called the police. 
 
 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.