Have you heard of Shelby Hewitt? Maybe you went to high school with her and you remember playing

with her on the basketball team or she was your lab partner in some science class. And then maybe

over a decade later, maybe your niece or nephew also went to high school with her and had her

for a lab partner in science class and also played with her on the high school basketball team.

While in her 30s, Shelby Hewitt

conned three different schools in the Boston public school system into believing she was either

a 16-year-old abused and sex-trafficked foster kid in need of some tender love and care,

or even crazier that she was a 13-year-old abused and sex-trafficked foster kid in needed some tender love and care. And there are zero allegations that she was a 13-year-old abused and sex-trafficked foster kid. It needed some tender love and care.

And there are zero allegations that she did this for any romantic reasons. She didn't sneak into

these schools to do anything pervy, it seems. She seemingly wasn't trying to groom or hook up with any

kids, half her age. She just wanted to be their peer, their friend, to be the teacher's pet

again? She pretended to be a kid again, even though she had a good job and a million-dollar

inheritance, just so she could, well, no one actually really knows why the hell she assumed the fake

identity of a teen and went back to school, she just did. Using resources from her job as a social worker to construct her adolescent identities,

she has a master's degree in school counseling. Hewitt enrolled herself into three different

schools in Massachusetts, and in one of those schools she enrolled as a seventh grader.

While impersonating a 16-year-old girl at a different school,

this very grown woman successfully joined the junior varsity basketball team.

Kind of embarrassing.

She couldn't still make varsity.

She went on some school field trips.

She made friends with her fellow students,

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