Internet Fraud/Mischief Case Heads To Trial

A South Shore teen will stand trial this year on a charge of misleading police, investigating the death of a person she allegedly invented as part of a fake Facebook profile.  The trial for 18-year-old Jessica Boudreau of Liverpool is scheduled to take place November 29th in Bridgewater provincial court. Boudreau was charged after police looked into the purported suicide of a girl named Clarissa Chistiakov. Police were alerted to the suicide by Cheryl Veinotte, a South Shore woman whose son, Brandon Wentzell, had been supposedly talking with Chistiakov on-line before he died earlier this year of an overdose of vodka and Dilaudid.  Wentzell had never met Chistiakov in person and it later turned out .... the girl did not exist. After her son died, Veinotte told police she received a series of text messages claiming to be Chistiakov's mother, saying the girl had committed suicide after hearing of Wentzell's death.