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Sarah F. Mader was weeks away from graduating from Waterford High School when she and four friends got together for a Senior Skip Day outing two years ago that scarred all of them for life.
Mader was an honor student who did volunteer work, was involved in church affairs and had been recognized for helping to wake up people when a massive nighttime fire broke out at a Norwich apartment complex.
But now, because she drank vodka and beer and smoked marijuana before she decided to drive her mother’s Ford Crown Victoria over the Miner Lane railroad tracks at high speed, she is a 19-year-old convicted felon serving a three-year prison sentence.   …..MORE