9: #FreeCyntoiaBrown: A Minor Facing Life in Prison

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when she committed murder. But it isn’t as simple as that. She was also a rape victim, pimped out and had been abandoned as a child. Did the system fail her?

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0:53.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that may not be suitable for all listeners, and
0:57.6	there may also be some explicit language used.
1:00.8	Listener discretion is advised.
1:09.4	Welcome to episode 9, my first case of the new year.
1:12.4	I want to thank all of you for listening, as well as for your patience over the holiday
1:16.9	break, which was a little longer than I had planned due to Lair and Gytus.
1:22.2	I'm so glad to be back and I'm very grateful that you're listening.
1:29.3	Imagine at the age of 16 being sex trafficked by a pump named Cutthroat.
1:34.9	After days of being repeatedly drugged and raped by different men, you were purchased by a
1:39.4	43-year-old child predator who took you to his home to use you for sex.
1:44.9	You ended up finding enough courage to fight back and shoot and kill him.
1:49.0	Her arrested as a result, tried and convicted as an adult, and sentenced to life in prison.
1:55.3	This is the story of Centoya Brown.
1:57.8	She will be eligible for parole when she is 69 years old.
2:02.5	Those are the words of pop star Rihanna in an Instagram post this past November that went
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