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Cyntoia Brown Case Highlights How Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Prosecuted

Cyntoia Brown received a life sentence for killing a man who hired her for sex when she was 16. Her case is renewing efforts to change how the system treats child sex trafficking victims.
Cyntoia Brown is pictured in a still from the 2011 documentary <em>Me Facing Life: The Cyntoia Brown Story. </em>Her case is renewing questions about how child sex trafficking victims are treated by the justice system.

Twenty-nine-year-old Cyntoia Brown has been locked up in a Tennessee prison for 13 years, after she was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of a man who hired her as a prostitute when she was 16.

At trial, Brown's lawyers argued she was a runaway who was raped, abused and forced into prostitution by a man known as "Kut Throat." She will be eligible for parole after she turns

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