A Texas woman was arrested after dressing up as her 13-year-old daughter in an online video and sneaking into her middle school as part of a “social experiment.”
Casey Garcia, 30, dressed as her teenage daughter and posted a video of herself last Wednesday entering the San Elizario Independent School District campus near El Paso. The mother defended her actions in a separate video, saying she went to the school to capture the gaps in security measures at schools. Garcia was booked into the El Paso County jail on Friday.
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“I didn’t do this to get views. I didn’t do this to get likes. I didn’t do this so people can be mad at me and I could never walk around El Paso again,” Garcia said in a Thursday video explaining her actions. “I said for a social experiment. I wanted to see if I could make it the entire day without anyone noticing. I’d say up until seventh period, I think that’s a very long day for a 30-year-old.”
The 30-year-old touched on the rise of mass shootings and disparaged the fact that she had made it through so easily in her daughter’s school.
“No one noticed I was there. That’s a problem,” she said.
In the video she took inside the school, Garcia, who is 4 feet, 6 inches and weighs 105 pounds according to records retrieved by Law & Crime, can be seen at the school dressed up in a yellow hoodie and jeans, greeting people in the hallways.
“Oh my goodness. I am going to get so caught,” she said. “I am actually really scared now.”
Garcia said she made it through all seven periods of class, until the last teacher asked her to stay after class and recognized that she wasn’t her student.
“She said, ‘Julie, can you stay after class?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely.’ She looked at me and she [said], ‘You’re not Julie,'” Garcia said. She then took off her mask and glasses and told the teacher that she wasn’t Julie but her mother instead.
According to Garcia, the teacher asked “why” and “was really mind-boggled, like she had no idea what the hell just happened.”
A third video posted by Garcia showed authorities showing up at her home prior to Friday’s arrest, telling her they had an outstanding traffic warrant. Garcia asked the officers who sent them, believing the school district’s superintendent had sent police to her house.
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Garcia was booked into the El Paso County jail on criminal trespass charges, tampering with government records, and the outstanding 2017 traffic warrant. Her bail was set at $7,908. She was released later that day.
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and San Elizario Independent School District did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s requests for comment.
