Cyntoia Brown Case Highlights How Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Prosecuted
Cyntoia Brown received a life sentence for killing a man who hired her for sex when she was 16. Her case is renewing efforts to change how the system treats child sex trafficking victims.
Twenty-nine-year-old Cyntoia Brown has been locked up in a Tennessee prison for 13 years, after she was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of a man who hired her as a prostitute when she was 16.
At trial, Brown's lawyers argued she was a runaway who was raped, abused and forced into prostitution by a man known as "Kut Throat." She will be eligible for parole after she turns
