Teen Pleads Guilty in Friend’s Death
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A baby-faced teenager accused of helping kill a drinking buddy in Central Park after he made a pass at her pleaded guilty to manslaughter. As her mother wept, Daphne Abdela, 16, admitted she knocked 44-year-old Michael McMorrow down before he was stabbed to death during a night of beer drinking in May. Her 15-year-old former boyfriend, Christopher Vasquez, is accused of stabbing the real estate agent.
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