Cyntoia Brown: Sixteen year old tried as an adult

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Source: BBC News

Sydney Spaulding and Kiana Orta, Reporters

Cyntoia Brown, a sixteen-year-old being tried as an adult, has been serving a fifty-one-year sentence before being eligible for parole. What makes this case special? Why is the world so focused on this one case? Because it is an atrocity and the decision was wrong. After fifteen years in prison, Brown is now free under probation.

Cyntoia Brown born on January 29th, 1988, was born with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Followed by a life of neglect from an alcohol ridden mother who used crack cocaine. Ultimately, this led to her being put into the foster system. When Cyntoia was sixteen years old, she ran away. This is when she met Garion McGlothen Jarvis, whose street name was KutThroat. Following their meeting, Jarvis had become Cyntoia’s pimp forcing her into sex trafficking, rape, and beatings on a daily basis. Brown was tried as an adult for the murder of Johnny Mitchell Allen in 2014. Allen solicited Brown for sex and took her back to his house. At Allen’s house, Brown was pretending to sleep, when Allen got upset. Brown thought he was reaching for a gun. Brown pulled a gun out of her purse and shot Allen. Brown then took Al-
let’s money, his trucks, and some guns fearing going back to KutThroat empty-handed. The Juvenile court found Brown competent enough to be tried as an adult, she was convicted of murder and robbery a sentenced to life.

In 2011, “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” the documentary on Cyntoia Brown. Brown described sex-trafficking, being raped repeatedly, being forced into prostitution and abused daily. Governor Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency January 7, 2019.