Brookfield Embezzlement Plea Hearing Continued, to March

BROOKFIELD, CT — The plea hearing for a woman charged with embezzling from a Brookfield parent-teacher organization was continued from Thursday to March 27 at Danbury Superior Court.

Monica Bevilacqua, 39, of Brookfield, was arrested in December after police said she took money from the Center Elementary School PTO's accounts over two years.

Monica Bevilacqua, 39, of Brookfield, was arrested in December and charged with embezzling $12,700 from a Brookfield parent-teacher organization (PTO) over two years when she served as treasurer. She has been accused of taking money from the organization's accounts via more than 180 personal orders charged to the organization's credit card and a series of checks.

The PTO is a private organization that doesn’t receive any public funding from the town of Brookfield or its schools.

Court records also indicate that Bevilacqua was asked to pay $100,000 in December to settle a civil case with a pedestrian she struck and injured in 2016. The previous month, a judge ordered her to pay almost $17,000 she owed to Citibank for her Mastercard bills.