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Florence Sally Horner

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Florence Sally Horner (1937-1952) was a girl abducted by a pedophile. In 1948, at the age of 11, she stole a 5 cents notebook in Hamden, New Jersey. Frank La Salle, a 50 years old mechanic, caught her stealing, told her that he is a FBI agent and threatened to send her to "a place for girls like you". Then he abducted the girl and spent 21 months traveling with her over different American states and raping her. While attending school in Dallas, Texas, she confided her secret to a friend. Later she managed to escape from La Salle and phone her sister at home asking her to send the FBI. La Salle had been arrested and claimed that he was Florence's father, however, FBI found that her father died 7 years ago. La Salle was sentenced to 30 to 35 years in prison. Florence Horner died in 1952 in a car accident.

Frank La Salle and Florence Sally Horner were real life prototypes of Humbert Humbert and Dolores "Lolita" Haze from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

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