Pom-Pom Mom Goes To Extreme

33-Year-Old Steals Daughter's Identity, Tries Out For High School Cheerleading Squad

(CBS)  High school is often a complicated chapter of people's lives. As adults, some wonder what it'd be like to go back. As The Early Show correspondent Michele Gielan reports, one 33-year-old Wisconsin woman went so far as to steal her daughter's identity to do just that.

The cheerleading squad at Ashwaubenon High near Green Bay, Wis. Wendy Brown wanted to be part of it all. But at 33, she needed help. So police say she stole her 15-year-old daughter's identity.

Brown tried out for cheerleading during the summer and attended one day of classes - but then, never returned. That raised a red flag and launched an investigation. Soon, truant officers found Wendy --- sitting in the county jail.

"Ms. Brown's criminal history says she's been involved in fraud and deceptive practices across the country for most of her adult life," said Lt. Jody Crocker, an Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer. "It comes to no surprise to us that she was able to pull something like this off."

But a 33-year-old high school student? Did anyone notice anything wrong?

"I thought it was really bizarre," said student Hope Edlebeck. "It's just something you never hear. A 33-year-old going to school."

"She did look a little insignificantly older, but you didn't want to question it," noted student Spencer Corpus. "You just go aw, alright, whatever."

"I can only guess if history repeats itself her motive has something to do with money," Crocker said. "Unless we take it at face value that she wanted to go and relive her childhood. I personally don't buy that."

But apparently teachers and students at the high school did. So it's safe to say this is one for the yearbook.

[sweetchuckd]

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[slim1h2o]

"I can only guess if history repeats itself her motive has something to do with money," Crocker said. "Unless we take it at face value that she wanted to go and relive her childhood. I personally don''t buy that."


How could it possibly be about money?
How''s there any money to be made posing as a kid, or cheerleader?

1st, we have a 28 yr old dude posing as a 12 yr old. Now we have a 33 yr old posing as a 15 yr old. People can be sooo stupid.

Is 15, the new 33?

ROFLMAO!

[sjw1253]

I don''t have any idea how she would have gotten money for this??? I can only imagine she feels she has more to offer than she did when she was younger and at an age she would have qualified.

I don''t know anything about other things she may have been involved with - but this story alone is not something that I would see would put someone in jail...

I don''t see this as a story and someone is trying to get publicity out of it and I think it is the local police where this originated - not the mother who supposedly is jailed for this...

It is not as though she is a *** offender or anything of that nature. I would suggest a psychological work-up not a jail cell...

Our tax dollars at work... keeping the criminals in their place... Did she actually use her daughter''s identity to do anything that was to deceive for financial gain... If so - that is what should be reported... I don''t see this as something that needs to have such national attention...

[thevicar1]

According to the official Libber-Alle battle cry, since no one was hurt, and nobodys rights were compromised, Ms. Brown did nothing wrong.
Let her go!

[newsjunky5]

She may have wanted to redo history and finally get a spot on the squad. Maybe she wanted to get her daughter into the group, and was cheating by filling in for her during the try-outs. At any rate, I''m afraid to think of what the adult film industry will do with this one.

[jack773]

I agree with the vicar. Cool thing to pull off. I wonder what she is or was in jail for?

[gramto8]

There is always the chance that catching her at this early stage prevented another mother-shooting-the-opposition disaster as has happened before. Any adult that uses fraud to infiltrate a student activity should be arrested.

[lochlan-2009]

Why do so many mothers try to live their teen years again through their daughters?

[thickredhair]

so what about the daughter was she going to school too? or did she drop out too?

[cncrndctzn]

Even if you think she did nothing that really hurt anybody, she still needs to be punished for this, and probably needs to undergo treatment for whatever mental condition it is that led her to this. The type of personality that would plan and execute something like this, especially with her history, is the type of personality we don''t really want walking the streets. Who knows what else she''d progress into doing if she got away with this? This society allows too much mentally ill behavior to go unchecked. She needs help.

[yoopermom]

The daughter lives with her grandmother and goes to a different school.

[lovesamerica]

What about fathers that try to relive their youth through their sons?

[kaviz]

What about the poor quarterback that thought he was on a date with a virgin?

[jamesetling]

Women generally do not tolerate having their own fantasies go unfulfilled. Its OK to deny the husband of all his fantasies, but women will not be denied.

[kaviz]

gwno1, I think she was Palin''s stepsister.

[davewrite1]

I had to laugh at the comment about one''s going back to school at 33. I was doing that right into my 60s, though not back to high school, which I was exoelled from at age 15. When you consider the heinous crimes -- rape, robbery, murder, embezzlement -- the desire to be a cheer leader (even with a false identity) is small potatoes. Rewarding her might have kept her from more grevious crimes and saved the taxpayer the cost of jailing her, which people are so fond of doing to others.

Billionaires living off bank and mortgage scams *** near managed to bankrupt America today. And we''re talking about a phony cheerleader.

Well, it does provide comic relief.

[scottyusa]

This would make a great movie. Too funny

[republic1776]

These boneheads, teach our children?
did not wonder why is was so old?
Liberal Agenda, Don''t use common sense!
(Let''s not insult this "girl")

[stloubill]

Republic said: "did not wonder why is was so old?"
Is your problem caused by the "Liberal agenda".
Or are you just that dense?

[andrew_693]

well, cindy Macshame was also a cheeleader slvt who slept with a married man, his name was macshame.

[minnick8-2009]

I remember a TV movie from years ago that was similar to this. However, the mom faking the identity of a teenager was really an undercover cop investigating something, drugs in the school or a murder. She, of course, went to the principal to arrange the fake identity. I say, if you are 33 and can pull off being a teenager, more power to the mom. If, I could do it, which I could not, I would have done some kind of story with the backing of a magazine. The mom who did this must be really desperate in her attempt to relive her youth. I hope she can grow up now.

I just remember, after I graduated, I went back to the old school one year later to show my new boyfriend my high school. Some kid running the track called out, "Hey ma''am, what time is it?" What a shocker, I looked like a ma''am one year later? Oh well.

[janeyre-2009]

That woman does not look like a teen ager... What is wrong with the people, at that school?

[babooph]

Hope some poor slob is not now in prison for having *** with a high school girl.