A mother and a daughter were arrested Monday in St. Charles Parish after the sheriff accused them of enrolling into a school and impersonating a student as an adult.

Marta Elizeth Serrano-Alvarado, 46, is accused of enrolling her daughter, 28-year-old Martha Jessenia Gutierrez-Serrano, at Hahnville High School. …

The school investigated and also learned that the mother, Serrano-Alvarado, had enrolled her daughter in school using a fraudulent passport and birth certificate.

[This happens on a rare basis, but this is the first time I can recall where a parent facilitated this kind of crime. What in the world is wrong with both of them, or perhaps more to the point, what were they attempting to do? Usually these are just cases of arrested development, but one has to wonder whether trafficking might have been the motive. — Ed]