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.