Melissa Drexler, who was nicknamed in the media as "The Prom Mom", is an American woman who, as a teenage high school student in 1997, delivered a baby in a restroom stall during her high school prom dance then put the infant in the trash can and returned to the dance. The baby was later found in a trash bin, and Drexler pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter. She was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. After serving a little over three years, she was released on parole.
Early life
Drexler was an only child from a middle-class Catholic family her parents and friends. At tall, and about , she apparently showed no signs of her pregnancy. Emergency medical technicians unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate the baby.
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