Arkansas Mother Steals Daughter’s Identity To Date Younger Men & Attend College

Mother Steals Estranged Daughter’s Identity To Date Younger Men And Attend College

An Arkansas woman pretended to be her estranged daughter in order to date younger men, apply for college, and student loans.

Laura Oglesby,48, applied for a social security card in her daughter’s name in 2016 and posed as a college student in Missouri.

At the time, Lauren Ashleigh Hays was 22 and Oglesby adopted the identity by applying for school, student loans, and a driver’s license. Authorities said she embezzled over $25,000 in student loans and lived with a couple for two years in addition to working at a city library.

The couple took her in after Oglesby said she was running away from an abusive relationship. She was later arrested in 2018 for social security fraud.

Earlier this month, Oglesby pleaded guilty to stealing her daughter’s identity and was ordered to pay back the Southwest Baptist University in restitution.

‘Everyone believed it. She even had boyfriends that believed that she was that age: 22 years old. She was just running because she was in a domestic violence relationship, and she’d been running for years,” said Chief Jamie Perkins of the Mountain View Police Department.

“We don’t know her life story outside of what she told us, but we know what happened here. She had lived that life for a couple of years and basically just ruined her daughter’s credit,‘ Jamie added.