The 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student appeared in court for a brief hearing on Tuesday morning. Shelby Hewitt, of Canton, has pleaded not guilty to charges including forgery and identity fraud. Court documents show she posed as a student from 2021 through 2023 while working for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families….

A woman accused of posing as a Boston Public Schools student will be back in court in October. Shelby Hewitt’s hearing was postponed Wednesday after she and her attorney weren’t able to attend. 

Shelby Hewitt, the 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student, is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday for a lobby conference. Court documents show that between 2021 and 2023, Hewitt posed as student as young as 13 while working as a social worker for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. Here’s a closer look...

A brief hearing was held Wednesday morning in the case of a 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student. Shelby Hewitt has pleaded not guilty to several crimes, including forgery, identity fraud and making false claims to her employer. A hearing was held in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday morning, but Hewitt did not appear,…

Shelby Hewitt, the woman accused of posing as a Boston Public Schools student, has a hearing on Wednesday. 

Shelby Hewitt is accused of carrying out an elaborate scheme to convince the Boston Public School system and the state that she was a child as young as 13 while working for the Department of Children and Families. Parents – and Hewitt’s attorney – want to know what went wrong with the school system that allowed her to get away...

Shelby Hewitt, the 32-year-old old woman accused of posing as a student in Boston Public Schools last year, pleaded not guilty to nine indictments in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday, where new details emerged around how she allegedly pretended to be a traumatized child with significant special educational and emotional needs. Hewitt is facing three counts of forgery, two counts of…

The woman wanted on charges she posed as a student at three different high schools in Boston has been indicted on multiple charges on Wednesday. Shelby Hewitt was indicted on forgery, common law forgery, uttering, larceny over $1200, ID theft, and false claims to employer charges. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Boston Superior Court on December 12. Hewitt initially…

Shelby Hewitt, a former Massachusetts Department of Children and Families worker, is accused of faking paperwork and passing herself off as a teenager to attend three Boston Public High Schools this past year. She’s now facing criminal charges, but parents and students want to know what the district is doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Shelby Hewitt was in Boston Municipal Court in West Roxbury to face charges on Monday, July 17, 2023, over allegedly providing fake names to be admitted to three Boston high schools.