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Cyntoia Brown, Sex Trafficked Teen Convicted of Murder, Is Released After 15 Years in Prison

Posted on AllSides August 7th, 2019
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Cyntoia Brown was freed from a Tennessee prison Wednesday after her life sentence for killing a man was commuted to 15 years. Brown, now 31, was 16 years old when she ran away from her adoptive parents’ home and became a victim of sex trafficking. She was living at a motel with an abusive pimp who forced her into prostitution when she was picked up by a 43-year-old real estate broker at a Nashville restaurant in 2004. She went back to Johnny Allen’s home in return for $150 to perform...

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