This documentary film explores the story of 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown, convicted of murder in 2004. After Brown – who had long been under the control of a 24-year-old pimp – is sentenced to life in prison, questions her past, physiology, and the law itself call her guilt into question.
Cyntoia Brown Long, who was a victim of child sex trafficking at the time of the incident, claimed that Johnny Allen had paid her $150 to have sex with him and that she feared for her life during their encounter, leading her to shoot him. Prosecutors argued that Brown killed Allen while he was sleeping to rob him. She was tried as an adult, found guilty of robbing and murdering Allen, and sentenced to life in prison — Cyntoia’s fate seemed sealed.
The film shows the complexity of a child who was the product of three generations of violence against women in her biological family. And how in 2019, after nearly ten years of legal challenges, Governor Bill Haslam granted her request for clemency. He did so following a slow shift in the state for legislative change in juvenile sentencing laws and having seen evidence of her maturity, education, and good behavior as a prisoner.
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