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A prom dress is what finally brought Nicole Smigiel's pregnancy to light. Smigiel was 16 at the time, unmarried and ready to graduate from Massapequa High School on Long Island. She was also eight months and one week pregnant.
It was a Friday night, June 20 of last year and Nicole Smigiel was at home, trying on the dress. A few months earlier, there had been room to spare in the dress. Now, the report said, she was seven pounds heavier - all of it in her waist and thighs.
"An emotional scene ensued," a social worker would later write, describing that last night of denial. Later, Smigiel and her mother, Graceann, were on the phone to a doctor.
Details about how the cheerleader tried to hide her pregnancy came...