Starting Point Army Pfc. Lynndie England becomes the face of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal when smiling photos of her with humiliated detainees surface.
Fever Pitch With her lawyer receiving more than 30 media calls a day, England bursts into the popular vernacular. Episodes of “The Simpsons,” “South Park” and “Arrested Development” all reference her, and the Rolling Stones release a song about “the lady with the leash.”
Present Day Paroled in March after 18 months in jail, England, now 24, is home in West Virginia taking care of her 3-year-old son. (The boy’s estranged father, Spc. Charles Graner Jr., was sentenced to 10 years.) On probation until September 2008, when she’ll be dishonorably discharged from the Army, England works as a clerk for Roy Hardy, her attorney. “That girl handles things very well,” Hardy says. “She’s not hiding.
