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A ‘millionaire’ social worker has been accused of posing as a troubled 13-year-old girl to trick a family into adopting her.
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A ‘millionaire’ social worker has been accused of posing as a troubled 13-year-old girl to trick a family into adopting her.
Why did a state social worker pose as a teen in three Boston schools and a treatment center? And how could nobody notice for so long?
Shelby Hewitt, also known as 'Ellie Blake', 13, conned her way into three high schools and a treatment center and the home of a couple who acted as foster parents.
For six months ahead of the 2022-23 school year, former DCF social worker Shelby Hewitt laid groundwork of false identities and intricate fictions of special education needs and emotional trauma for six months, Suffolk prosecutors outlined -- all to con her way into high school.
Shelby Hewitt, a former state social worker who allegedly posed as a Boston Public Schools student and attended multiple city schools pretended to be a “traumatized” teen in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, prosecutors said Tuesday.