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Celebrities call for release of woman who killed man who paid for sex with her when she was 16

Cyntoia Brown has spent the past 13 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until she is at least 67.

A 29-YEAR-OLD woman who killed a man who hired her as a prostitute when she was 16 is receiving a swell of support from celebrities.

Cyntoia Brown has spent the past 13 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until she is at least 67.

This week celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Le Bron James and Cara Delevingne have given public support to Brown and are using the hashtag #FreeCyntoiaBrown.

According to the New York Times, Brown had a difficult childhood. She was adopted but dropped out of elementary school and ran away to Nashville.

She was living in a motel with a pimp known as Kut Throat when she became a prostitute.

Testifying during her trial, Associated Press reports that Brown said:

He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut, and nobody’d want me but him, and the best thing I could do was just learn to be a good whore.

In August 2004, a 43-year-old man called Johnny Allen picked up Brown in his truck and drove her to his home where he showed her guns and the pair then got into bed.

Court documents reveal that Brown had thought Allen was reaching for a gun when she pulled a handgun from her purse and shot him.

She then took Allen’s wallet and two of his guns before going to a hotel where she was later arrested.

Cyntoia was tried as an adult and the jury rejected her claim of self-defence, handing down a life sentence.

A documentary about her life “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” was part of PBS’s Independent Lens series broadcast in 2011.

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It’s not known what caused the celebrity support this week, although FOX 17 reported that it was denied a request to interview her last week.

It described Brown as a child sex slave who was physically, sexually and verbally abused.

However Jeff Burks, who prosecuted Brown, told Fox 17 that she shouldn’t be considered a victim.

There has been a group of people who have wanted to make Brown a victim and a celebrity since this happened.

“She was not ‘trafficked’ nor was she a ‘sex slave.’ It’s not fair to the victim and his family that the other side of this case is so seldom heard.”

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    Oct 30th 2024, 12:59 PM

    I think the old people that were gathered up from hospitals en masse and shoved into under resourced nursing homes to die alone, at the behest of NPHET, deserve an inquest, never mind an inquiry. This government seems to have forgotten about them. The actions of those who made this disastrous decision, potentially amount to criminal malfeasance IMO. Unfortunately, this all looks like a back patting exercise. More akin to a PR stunt than a proper analysis. I suppose this government aren’t going to start caring about our elderly citizens all of a sudden so no surprise to see the whitewash unfold

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    Oct 30th 2024, 12:48 PM

    Correcting their own homework

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    Oct 30th 2024, 1:04 PM

    Another Waste of Public Money. ” Lessons will be Learned ” will be the Tagline after all that.

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    Oct 30th 2024, 12:37 PM

    No wonder everything takes forever in Ireland . What with inquiries , Scoping Enquiries , reports , task forces , focus groups , commissions , study groups , tribunals .

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    ‘we could be facing future pandemics in the future’ … well, we won’t be facing them in the past, Simon.

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    Oct 30th 2024, 1:20 PM

    Is it five years coming? Of course, no need to be in any hurry? It seems Government doesn’t care except when a General Election is in the offing.

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    Oct 30th 2024, 12:32 PM

    Is this realy necessary. Or just a waste of taxpayers money

    Maybe they just want a pat on the back for being so great

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    Let’s hope whoever is appointed is safe and effective.

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    Oct 30th 2024, 12:24 PM

    have the warehoused taxes been repaid yet?

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    @Niall English: they bloody well should be

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    Oct 30th 2024, 1:06 PM

    ‘Building health system resilience through policy development in response to COVID-19 in Ireland: From shock to reform’. Burke, Sara et al. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, Volume 9, 100223

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