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Florence Balka 1910 - 1979

Florence Balka of Carteret, Middlesex County, NJ was born on July 31, 1910, and died at age 68 years old in July 1979.
Florence Balka
Carteret, Middlesex County, NJ 07008
July 31, 1910
July 1979
Female
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Florence Balka's History: 1910 - 1979

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  • 07/31
    1910

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    July 31, 1910
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  • 07/dd
    1979

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    July 1979
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    Unknown
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    Florence Balka lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1910, in the year that Florence Balka was born, the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.
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In 1924, she was only 14 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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