Cyntoia Brown-Long, now free after serving 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man after being forced into prostitution, has made it her mission to help women and girls in situations she once found herself in.
The work she and others are doing is slowly changing how sex-trafficking victims who commit crimes can defend themselves in court and how the criminal justice system and society views them.
In 2004, she met Johnny Mitchell Allen, 43, who allegedly paid her for sex. She said he took her to his house in Nashville, where she shot and killed him when they were in bed after she saw him reaching for what she believed to be a gun. In 2019, after her case gained celebrity attention, then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted her full clemency. She had already served 15 years.
“These are runaways … whether it’s because their home life wasn’t the greatest or because they have trouble,” Long-Brown said. “Now they find themselves on the streets and they can’t go get a job. They can’t do the things that other people would do — put a roof over their heads and put food in their mouth.
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