A film that sheds light on Cyntoia Brown, a young girl imprisoned for killing the man who solicited her as a 16-year-old child sex slave, hopes to set her free.
In 2004, Brown stepped into Johnny Mitchell Allen’s pickup truck after the 43-year-old Nashville real estate agent solicited her for sex. They drove to his home, went into his bed and soon after, Brown shot him in the back of the head with a .40-caliber handgun as he lay naked beside her.
She was sentenced to life in prison at the Tennessee Prison for Women with a chance of parole at age 67, despite having been abused in raped repeatedly as a victim of sex trafficking.
In the film about her case — headed by filmmaker Dan Birman — Brown explains her abuse and how it made her paranoid.
“This is a young girl who’s at the tail end of three generations of violence against women,” Birman told Fox 17 News.
Cyntoia, her grandmother, and mother were all raped he explains. “She had no chance.”
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