A New Zealand woman faces jail time on a charge of using a telephone for fictitious purposes after she falsely claimed that a girl competing with her daughter for a spot in an elite school was a lesbian with a sexually transmitted disease.

PinkPaper.com reports that the unidentified woman was so eager to get her daughter a leg up on another student that she phoned two schools and said she was a sexual health nurse treating the competing student -- who she claimed was engaged in a lesbian relationship -- for an STD. The woman, who is currently awaiting sentencing, could be fined up to $2,000 or sentenced to three months behind bars.

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