An grownup lady allegedly posed as a Boston highschool pupil. Now she’s dealing with legal expenses.

Crime

Shelby Hewitt, 32, is dealing with a number of expenses that embody identification fraud and doc forgery.

A 32-year-old lady is now dealing with legal expenses after she was accused of posing as a Boston Public Faculties pupil and attending three totally different excessive colleges.

Former state social employee Shelby Hewitt was charged Tuesday within the West Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court docket. She faces a number of expenses, together with doc forgery, identification fraud, and “uttering false or solid information, deeds or different writings,” based on a duplicate of the docket supplied to Boston.com. 

It was not clear Wednesday afternoon whether or not Hewitt had retained an legal professional.

In a letter to oldsters final week, Superintendent Mary Skipper mentioned an grownup lady used faux identification and paperwork to register and switch colleges underneath a number of pseudonyms. The lady attended Jeremiah E. Burke Excessive College in Dorchester, Brighton Excessive College, and English Excessive College in Jamaica Plain in the course of the 2022-2023 faculty yr, Skipper mentioned. 

“I’m deeply troubled that an grownup would breach the belief of our faculty communities by posing as a pupil,” Skipper advised The Boston Globe in an announcement. “This seems to be a case of extraordinarily refined fraud.”

The lady was caught after a BPS workers member seen “irregularities” in her paperwork, based on Skipper. A BPS spokesperson declined to touch upon the costs in opposition to Hewitt.

The legal criticism in opposition to Hewitt, a Canton resident, doesn’t point out her motives in attending the excessive colleges, the Globe reported. 

A police report obtained by the Globe reveals that officers executed a search warrant at a Jamaica Plain house shared by Hewitt and two different individuals who allegedly posed as her mother and father. In line with the Globe, police discovered 5 solid Lowell Juvenile Court docket paperwork for people known as DBH and EAH, in addition to solid Division of Kids and Households paperwork with custody data for DBH and EAH. 

Hewitt allegedly glided by “Daneilla” at Burke Excessive College and “Ellie” at English Excessive College, the newspaper reported.

Many unknowns nonetheless stay in Hewitt’s alleged scheme, which unnerved college students, mother and father, and metropolis leaders alike. 

Throughout an look on WBUR’s “Radio Boston” Monday, Mayor Michelle Wu acknowledged the final sense of shock surrounding Hewitt’s alleged actions, in addition to the group’s frustration that an grownup lady took benefit of sources supposed for Boston’s college students.

“It’s extraordinarily disturbing, proper? If somebody advised me that an grownup many many years faraway from being in a few of these age-appropriate settings was again in class — it’s regarding,” Wu mentioned.