A Queenstown mother has admitted pretending to be a sexual health worker and telling a prospective school her daughter's rival for a place at the elite institution was in a lesbian relationship. The Otago Daily Times reports police as telling the Queenstown District Court the defendant applied to St Hilda's Collegiate School and Columba College, both in Dunedin, in May for her daughter to be accepted next year. "There is a very high demand for limited places at the schools and a board makes a final decision" on candidates towards the end of the year, Mr Collin told Judge Kevin Phillips. The mother was aware another Queenstown teenager was also applying for entry to the schools, he said, the Otago Daily Times reports. "In an effort to have her daughter accepted ahead of the other student, the defendant made the fictitious phone calls to both St Hilda's and Columba College concerning the other student's behaviour and that of her parents," he said. In one of the calls she called one school and said the prospective pupil "had a sexually transmitted disease and that she was in a lesbian relationship with another girl". The school staff quickly became suspicious about the calls. You can read more here
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First published: Tuesday, 18th October 2011 - 11:06am