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Friday, December 31, 2004
Florence Holway Fights Back
On Easter Eve 1991, 75-year-old Florence Holway was brutally raped in her rural New Hampshire home by a 25-year-old intruder. A grandmother with a love of life, Holway promised herself during the assault that if she survived, she would make sure her attacker could never do the same thing to another woman. A Rape In A Small Town: The Florence Holway Story recounts the horrific details of Holway's ordeal, and chronicles her 12-year struggle to bring a criminal to justice - as well as change a flawed legal system when the America Undercover documentary debuts Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 8 p.m. on HBO. A Film by Jeffrey Chapman (70 mins)