Florence Holway
Deceased Person
1915 – 2012
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Who was Florence Holway?
Florence Robie Reed Holway was a woman who was raped and sodomized at the age of 75 by John LaForest on March 31, 1991, in her Alton, New Hampshire home. Her subsequent fight for justice ultimately resulted in changes to that state's rape laws and is the subject of a 2003 HBO documentary entitled Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story, which chronicles her ordeal.
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- Born
- Jun 2, 1915
Massachusetts - Lived in
- New Hampshire
- Died
- Feb 7, 2012
New Hampshire
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on July 23, 2013
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