Cyntoia Brown Murder Case

Thirteen years ago in Nashville, Tennessee, Cyntoia Brown was purchased by Johnny Allen and then later that night she shot and killed him. She was only sixteen at the time and she had a very rough childhood like being beaten and being forced into prostitution. She was being pimped out by her boyfriend who everyone called “Kutthroat” and he beat her and rape her but she felt as if she could not leave because he said that he would kill her and he knew where her mother lived and he would kill her mother too. When she went home with Johnny Allen he kept talking about how he was a sharp shooter and then he showed her his guns so that scared Cyntoia, so when they were lying in bed and he reached down from his bed by his gun case she got scared and thought that he was reaching for a gun to shoot her so she shot him in the back of the head and killed him. She got scared, fled the scene, and called the police to tell them about Johnny Allen’s dead body at his home because she felt bad. When she was caught by the police she was brought to court and was …show more content…
Over a million people have seen these posts and commented on them. People have even gone as far as to starting petitions to get her a retrial. This is going to affect the people who are being sex trafficked and who are thinking about fighting back because now if they fight back they believe they will go to prison for life just like Cyntoia Brown. This also sparks distrust in the justice system because some believe that all she was doing was defending herself and now she is spending life in prison. This is important because over a million people are rooting for Cyntoia and they do not believe that she should be in