Word: drexler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the most shocking thing about the crime allegedly committed by Melissa Drexler was her seeming lack of concern about it. Minutes after giving birth in a toilet stall and then allegedly choking or suffocating her 6-lb. 6-oz. son, Drexler returned to the floor of her high school formal dance in Aberdeen Township, N.J., where she ate some salad and danced with her boyfriend. Six months later, Drexler, now 19 and known outside her immediate circle by the tabloid sobriquet Prom Mom, is by most accounts maintaining her outward poise. Says a friend, Tim Hoban: "She seems pretty...
While living at home in nearby Lacey Township and waiting for a trial date to be set--she pleaded not guilty to murder charges at an October arraignment--Drexler has dropped plans to attend community college. Her notoriety has also led her to give up looking for a job. Friends say she passes her days going to the mall or hanging out at their homes watching TV. And nearly every day she sees the father of her child, John Lewis, 21, who, like the rest of Drexler's friends, claims he was not aware of her pregnancy. In a recent...
This June, Melissa Drexler of Ocean County, N.J. was charged with murder when, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an autopsy found that her six-pound baby boy had "died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation or obstruction of the mouth or nose." In the proceeding investigation it was revealed that Drexler had given birth to the baby at her high school prom and then disposed of him in the trash...
...would anyone but Melissa Drexler be to blame for disposing of her baby? She's the one who put it in a trash can at her prom [PUBLIC EYE, June 23]. With all the methods available to teenagers today to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, there is simply no excuse. You cannot blame her parents for not putting her on the Pill, her teachers for not handing her condoms to use when she wanted to have sex, or a political party for wanting to preserve life. Drexler knew she was expecting and had time to have a legal abortion. This horrible...
CHARGED. MELISSA DREXLER, 18, enigmatic teen who secretly gave birth in a rest-room stall at her senior prom, dumped her baby into the trash, then headed for the dance floor; with murder and endangering a child; in Freehold, N.J. Prosecutors say the boy was alive at the time of delivery and died of asphyxiation...