The story of Cyntoia Brown

Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when she was sentenced to life for killing Johnny Allen in 2004. He was a real estate agent that paid her pimp named "Kut-throat" to have her as his sex slave. Since she had become a runaway, Brown had had many sexual encounters with older men other than Johnn Allen. She had been raped, assaulted during and before sex, and was under the influenced of drugs when these things happened to her. As a 16-year-old being trafficked for sex, you can only imagine the fear and trauma she was probably experiencing. This led her to shoot Johnny Allen in the back of his head with a .40-caliber. This is called self-defense. She feared her life was in danger and she did the thing that she thought would keep her safe. A film was later produced about her case. Because of the impact the film made, anyone of the age of 18 and younger cannot be charged with prostitution in Tennessee. But it didn't have any impact on the actual case and its final decision. This girl was constantly being raped and assaulted repeatedly by grown men, who knew exactly what they were doing. When women don't speak up, they are shamed. And when they do, they aren't given the justice they deserve.
A case that I have seen people compare this case to is the People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner. He was a student-athlete at Stanford (age 22) when he sexually assaulted an intoxicated and unconscious 22-year-old woman. The same day he was arrested he was released after posting a $150,000 bail. He was charged with two rape charges, two for felony sexual assault, and one for attempted rape. The charges of rape were dropped a few months after and left him with the assault charges that could have given him 14 years in jail. But instead, he was only sentenced to only 6 months.
People are shocked that a 16-year-old who shot the man who was raping her and abusing her as self-defense gets sentenced to life, but a guy who consciously raped an intoxicated and unconscious woman only gets 6 months. Justice was not given to Cynthia Brown, nor the girl was that raped by Brock Allen Turner. Cyntoia was the victim in this case and was wrongfully charged with a crime she only committed because she feared her life was in danger and finally got the courage to do something about it. Cyntoia deserves justice and the people who tortured her deserve to pay for all the terrible things they did to her. They are the ones that deserve to be sentenced to life, not her. The laws need to change so that they don't continue to convict the wrong people.