Program Explores Teen Dating Violence: Mother of slain girl warns parents about perils of social media
From the New Jersey Jewish News, October 26, 2011
By Johanna Ginsburg
Mac McAdams of Moline, Ill., still wipes a tear away as he hears his daughter describe the death of his 15-year-old granddaughter, Jenny Crompton. No matter that the murder happened in 1986.
“It’s still hard to think about what she’d be like after all these years, and how much of life she missed,” he said quietly to the reporter who happened to be seated next to him.
Just a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of Jenny’s stabbing murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, her mother, Vicki Crompton-Tetter, is still telling the story. She’s been on Oprah, in Redbook magazine, and is the author of Saving Beauty from the Beast: How to Save Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship, a book she coauthored in 2003 with Ellen Zelda Kessner, another parent of a murdered child.
“The story is old, the hairdos are old, but human nature is the same. People still come up to me after I talk and say, ‘Thank you. I needed to hear that,’” she told 165 people, almost all women, at Rachel Coalition’s Oct. 18 Women to Women Luncheon.
