![]() ![]() ![]() She was sent home to New Jersey - but her difficulties weren't over.Įven though she had been raped, many of the girls at her school considered her a "slut" because she was no longer a virgin, said Weinman. Horner's family called the FBI, and La Salle was arrested later that day. Sally Horner, age 13, is reunited with her mother Ella Horner at Philadelphia International Airport on Maafter her rescue. "Her little girl wanted a vacation … but Ella couldn't afford it, so she let her daughter go off with the stranger," she said.īy the time her mother realized something was wrong and called the police, the young Horner and La Salle had disappeared. ![]() Weinman said Horner's mother, Ella Horner, "had a really tough, hardscrabble life." Sally's father had killed himself, and she was struggling to support their family. He made her tell her mother she was going on vacation with a friend. Horner didn't hear from him for several months, but in June, shortly after she turned 11, La Salle stopped her on her way home from school and convinced her to come with him to Atlantic City, N.J. La Salle told Horner he was an FBI agent, and unless she agreed to follow his instructions and regularly report back to him, she would be sent to a juvenile reformatory. This photograph of Sally Horner was discovered at the Atlantic City boarding house where Frank La Salle held her captive, six weeks after her disappearance. ![]()
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