Woman accused of posing as NYC high school student claimed she spent three years in psych ward

Source: New York Post

The 28-year-old woman who allegedly faked being a teenager to enroll in an NYC school claimed she fled an abusive marriage and struggled with an eating disorder that landed her in a psych ward. Kacy Claassen told her hometown news outlet in Hays, Kansas, about three hours northwest of Wichita, that she was unemployed and homeless and using a nonprofit’s transitional housing program to rebuild her life. “It was definitely a humbling experience,” a then-25-year-old Claassen told the Hays Post in March 2023, claiming she had briefly lost custody of her then 2-year-old daughter because of her financial issues.