St. Ann's School CEO is due in court July 27 in Massachusetts on embezzlement charges

FROM EAGLETRIBUNE.COM

Sharon Cutter, former chief executive officer at St. Ann’s Home, is scheduled to appear before a judge July 27 at Essex Superior Court in Salem to answer charges of embezzling from the school for troubled children.



The indictment for Cutter of Piedmont Street in Methuen, is for two charges of embezzling money, said Carrie Kimball Monahan, spokesperson for District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett.

“She was summonsed to court so she is not in custody,” Monahan said.

The case started last November when the agency launched an investigation into its finances after financial irregularities were discovered. Cutter was first placed on administrative leave, and fired three weeks later. In January, investigators conducted a search warrant at her home and at her then-boyfriend’s restaurant, Prelude on Route 97 in the Methuen, Salem, N.H. line. Records from what was seized from the home and restaurant have not been released.

St. Ann’s Home and School at 100 A Haverhill St., serves children with learning disabilities and behavioral and emotional disorders at its residential treatment center and special education school. St. Ann’s is a related agency of the Archdiocese of Boston, but does not receive any funding from them.