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...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 normal...
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...
...When they deliver, the pregnancy is a shocking reality: they think they're going in to have a bowel movement, and they have a baby," Spinelli says. "Yes, it's hard to believe, but things happen all the time that are hard to believe." --Reported by G. Patrick Pawling/Lacey Township...
...violence. Some of the stories are harrowing. Jamie Nabozny, who in the early '90s attended high school in Ashland, Wis., says he was kicked in the stomach so many times he required surgery. A group of boys also urinated on him. Robert McDonald, 20, a former student at Jefferson Township High School in southern New Jersey, claims he was spat upon while he rode the bus and beaten up after track practice...
...what some South Africans have been calling her since 1991, when she was convicted of kidnapping and fined $3,200. The case against Madikizela-Mandela (she added her maiden name after the 1996 divorce from President Nelson Mandela) arose out of her involvement with a bunch of young Soweto Township toughs who called themselves the Mandela United Football Club and acted as her bodyguards. In 1988 the gang abducted four youths from a township mission house, and one of them, a 14-year-old activist nicknamed Stompie (Afrikaans for cigarette butt) Seipei, was later found murdered. The "coach...